Osseointegration, a form of implant surgery, is restoring freedom of movement to amputees in a revolutionary new way. Correspondent Barry Petersen speaks to doctors about this prosthetic procedure, and with patients who are embracing their expanded mobility with a vengeance.
After a life-altering accident, CU Anschutz patient Josh Bryan experienced the transformational impacts of innovative, highly tailored limb replacement surgery. Under the care of Jason Stoneback, MD, and team, he and wife Melissa are back to their lives and looking to the future.
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.
"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.
A serious accident, in a foreign country, put Bryan's life on a surprising path. The Limb Restoration team at University of Colorado Hospital puts him back on the road to recovery.
The Limb Restoration Program at UCH, directed by Dr. Jason Stoneback, uses multidisciplinary care, technology to take on a wide variety of complex cases.
Dr. Jason Stoneback, director of orthopedic trauma and fracture surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital, said replanting a thumb detached in a rodeo injury is extremely difficult because of the way vessels and tissue are crushed.
In the treatment of tibial plateau fractures in extreme sports athletes, determining whether there is a soft tissue injury and treating the fracture with external fixation is vital, according to a presenter here.