The recently FDA-cleared implant enables younger patients to return to their active lifestyle without the limitations sometimes associated with other procedures, like a total shoulder replacement.
Paige has played soccer her entire life and dreams of playing in college. However, when hip pain threatened her senior season, she turned to Dr. Jonathan Schiller, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at University Orthopedics.
Do you suffer from chronic low back pain, or pain deep in the buttocks when sitting or standing for too long? Have trouble sleeping due to pain on the outside of your hip when lying on your side? Have you developed any groin or front hip pain, or do you start to waddle, fatigue, or lose balance after walking for too long? All of these are symptoms of one very particular issue—a tear in your gluteus medius muscle.
As an athlete herself, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon Braidy Shambaugh finds it easy to relate to her patients as they try to get back to the activities they love.
Dr. P.J. Wagner, a spine surgeon from Connecticut, always joked that if he ever needed spine surgery, he'd have his colleague and friend Dr. Dominic Kleinhenz perform it.
The medical field is a family tradition for Dr. Michael C. Mariorenzi, an adult reconstruction surgeon at University Orthopedics. His father, grandfather, and uncle are all orthopedic surgeons. He says it's those strong family ties that have had a profound effect on the course of his career, including how he ended back in his native state of Rhode Island.
As an experienced physical therapist at another local practice, Mario is in the know when it comes to the best orthopedic surgeons and practices. When he needed both of his hips replaced, he could have gone anywhere. But, he chose University Orthopedics, Inc. and Dr. Jenkins, not once, but twice.
When non-surgical treatments for a herniated disc failed to relieve Gian's leg pain, he underwent same-day microdiscectomy at University Orthopedics East Bay Surgery Center with spine surgeon John Czerwein, MD.
Foot and ankle surgeons Dr. Brad Blankenhorn and Dr. Raymond Hsu discuss acute achilles injuries on Episode 5 of the PT Podcast.
