News & Patient Stories

Apr 5, 2024

This episode of the AC News Flash features Cass Isidro and Dr. Danielle Melton. Dr. Melton, is a new Amputee Coalition board member and director of the Amputee Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Jan 23, 2024

It was early November, and Dr. Lynn Pezzanite was standing in an operating room at Colorado State University’s Translational Medicine Institute, flanked on either side by two of her most influential mentors, Dr. Laurie Goodrich and Dr. Jason Stoneback. Goodrich and Stoneback had scrubbed in to assist on a pair of equine surgeries tied to Pezzanite’s first research grant as the principal investigator.

Dec 15, 2023

Dr. Stoneback and his research team are working with equine veterinarians and researchers at the CSU Translational Medicine Institute to research the development of post-traumatic arthritis in horses. The goal is to develop methods for earlier detection and treatment of human post-traumatic arthritis.

Dec 13, 2023

In episode 12, host Seth O'Brien, CP, FAAOP(D), sits down with Dr. Jason Stoneback, chief of orthopedic trauma and fracture surgery, and the director of the limb restoration and osseointegration programs at the University of Colorado Hospital. The two talk about bone-anchored prosthetics, Stoneback's introduction to osseointegration, different approaches to the procedure, and the FDA approval status.

Apr 4, 2022

On July 4, 2022, I was barely able to move, heavy chested, fatigued, sweating, heart was racing, and my body felt swollen. I was taken to the hospital. After getting things checked out, they told me I was positive for COVID-19. I had told them about my previous history of pericarditis and myocarditis, and they just said that my heart rate was most likely elevated due to the virus and had me go home that day.

Feb 15, 2023

Once bound for the Olympics, Steamboat skier David Schlicht suffered a terrible accident during practice and ultimately opted for a below-knee amputation. With support from his mom, dad and sister, David’s facing his future with infectious optimism. Photo by John Russell for UCHealth.

Feb 21, 2023

As small town populations decline, people in places like western Kansas look for ways to keep their rural farming and ranching lifestyle alive for the next generation. Some families think youth rodeo might be part of the answer.

Jan 13, 2021

It’s not often you manage to damage yourself in a city of 70,000 – the population of Broomfield or Castle Rock – that’s also the middle of nowhere. So it was, though, for Wim Haverhals. During the week leading up to Labor Day 2017, the 50-year-old Denver IT professional was back in Black Rock City, Nevada, for the annual weeklong Burning Man arts and music festival.