Orthopaedic Surgery / Sports Medicine

Watson Clinic's Orthopaedic Surgery team delivers a quality of care unrivaled within our area's healthcare landscape. Their compassion and expertise, coupled with the latest state-of-the-art techniques and technologies, ensures exceptional patient satisfaction through every phase of treatment. They offer a comprehensive roster of services, including minimally invasive surgical techniques in total joint replacement, ligament reconstruction and cartilage injury surgery. Furthermore, the department utilizes a multidisciplinary approach in considering the overall wellness of the patient, supported by Watson Clinic's network of over 220 physicians, 40 specialties, and additional medical specialists including athletic trainers, physical and occupational therapists.

 

In recent years, the field of orthopaedic surgery has benefited profoundly from a series of technological and surgical breakthroughs. This progression is perhaps most apparent in the field of joint replacement.
 

With the advent of advanced technologies and improved surgical tools, partial and complete joint replacement procedures have become more successful and popular than ever before, restoring mobility to hundreds of thousands of people and allowing them to lead more productive and active lives.
 

Watson Clinic’s orthopaedic surgeons have long been leaders in the field of joint replacement procedures, including those involving the hip, knee, shoulder, ankle and additional joints.
 

Joints can sustain damage in a variety of ways, including through injury, arthritis, or simple wear and tear. Minimally invasive joint replacement procedures allow the patients a fast recovery and freedom from debilitating pain and discomfort following their joint reconstruction.
 

During the procedure, the damaged joint is replaced with an implant, usually made of metal/plastic and/or ceramic. There’s even a gender-specific implant, working in perfect harmony with a woman’s unique anatomy. The typical hospital stay following surgery is two to four days. For hip and knee replacements, the patient usually needs to use crutches for up to two weeks and a cane after that until they build up strength in their new joint. Physical therapy is often useful in regaining that strength. The artificial joints typically last anywhere from 10 to 25 years.
 

Though joint replacements produce overwhelmingly positive results, they remain an option of last resort. There are a great number of therapeutic and minimally-invasive surgical options that need to be exhausted before total replacement becomes a consideration, including anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy and joint resurfacing.
 

Watson Clinic orthopaedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians specialize in the following procedures:

• Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL)
  
• Anterior supine hip procedure (A muscle-sparing hip replacement with faster recovery)
  
• Arthroscopic procedures of the shoulder, wrist, elbow, knee and ankle
  
  • Meniscus tears, repair and resection
    
  • Rotator cuff tears and injuries
    
  • Loose body removal
    
  • Cartilage injury repair
    
  • SLAP and labral repairs
• Carpal tunnel release
  
• Computer navigation surgery
  
• Corrective bone realignment procedures
  
• Fracture care
  
• Hip replacement surgery
  
• Joint resurfacing procedures including “partial” knee replacement
  
• Knee resurfacing
  
• Ligament reconstruction
  
• Minimally invasive total joint reconstruction/replacement of the hip, knee and shoulder
• Percutaneous scaphoid fixation
  
• Reconstruction of traumatic bone and joint injuries       
• ROSA Knee System   
• Tennis and golfer’s elbow surgery
  
• Gender solutions knee      

• The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (www.aossm.org)
  
• Arthroscopy Association of North America (www.aana.org)
  
• American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (www.aaos.org)
  
• American Sports Medicine Institute
  
• American Medical Society of Sports Medicine
  
• American College of Sports Medicine
  

 

 

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 Sports Medicine & Nonsurgical Orthopaedic Physicians:

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Learn about our Orthopaedic Advanced Practitioner Provider, Sports Medicine Program and our Sports Medicine / Nonsurgical Orthopaedics team.

 

 

Please call 863-680-7214 for additional information.