News & Patient Stories

Feb 19, 2025

How to Apply the Shrinker to Residual Limb after Primary or Revision Amputation

Oct 26, 2024

“When dealing with extremities at risk, there’s a subset of people for whom amputation becomes the right choice. That’s always been a pillar of the Limb Restoration Program,” said Dr. Jason Stoneback, an orthopedic traumatologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, who founded the program.

May 24, 2024

The University of Colorado Limb Restoration Program is the first of its kind to deliver holistic, patient-centered care to people living with limb loss or who are at risk of losing a limb. Based at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the program provides comprehensive orthopedic, vascular, wound and rehabilitative care to a growing number of patients with complex extremity injuries.

Dec 18, 2024

"It's ok to grieve. It's ok to cry. Just don't get stuck there." UCHealth patient Hiba Azzam went from the ICU to throwing the first pitch at Coors Field with the Colorado Rockies.

May 8, 2020

Apr 5, 2020

What if you break a hip (or leg, or whatever) during a pandemic? People still get hurt. Orthopedic Trauma and other UCHealth trauma services have taken steps to be able to put patients back together and keep coronavirus out of the picture. By: Todd Neff, for UCHealth

May 4, 2020

Colten Fritzlan in action at the Tuff Hedeman Bull Riding Tour competition in El Paso, Texas on Feb. 8, 2020, after limb-restoration surgeries helped preserve his rodeo career. Photo courtesy Todd Brewer Photography.

Sep 11, 2012

What non-invasive methods can surgeons use to reliably differentiate between cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis? What is the role of diagnostic imaging?: Advanced imaging has high sensitivity, specificity. Editorial. Orthopaedics Today