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    SRS Patient Webinar: Adult Scoliosis

    Complex UNiDTM ASI T10-Pelvis correction

    Complex UNiDTM ASI T10-Pelvis correction

    Patient description: 70 year-old female with severe low back pain and fatigue exacerbated by standing/walking, improved with sitting/supine position. Also with left L3/4/5 radiculopathy, neurogenic claudication. Right sided hip flexor and quadricep weakness. Patient diagnosis: Multilevel lumbar spondylosis, spinal stenosis, L3-4 and L4-5 degenerative spondylolisthesis, sagittal plane malalignment with thoracolumbar deformity. Patient was also noted to have severe sagittal plane malalignment with:

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    • SRS Patient Webinar: Adult ScoliosisOpens in a new window

      Jan 30, 2023
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    • Complex UNiDTM ASI T10-Pelvis correction

      Complex UNiDTM ASI T10-Pelvis correctionOpens in a new window

      Sep 1, 2022
      Patient description: 70 year-old female with severe low back pain and fatigue exacerbated by standing/walking, improved with sitting/supine position. Also with left L3/4/5 radiculopathy, neurogenic claudication. Right sided hip flexor and quadricep weakness. Patient diagnosis: Multilevel lumbar spondylosis, spinal stenosis, L3-4 and L4-5 degenerative spondylolisthesis, sagittal plane malalignment with thoracolumbar deformity. Patient was also noted to have severe sagittal plane malalignment with:
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    • UNiDTM HUB Alignment Parameters

      L3-S1 fusion featuring UNiDTM ASI patient-specific rodsOpens in a new window

      Dec 1, 2022
      Patient description: 44-year-old female had previously underwent a laminectomy for a disc herniation. Patient presented with new onset of bilateral radicular leg pain without an antecedent history of trauma. Initial radiographic imaging showed laminectomy defect with degeneration at L4-5 and L5-S1. She initially underwent non-operative care, including PT/OT, steroid dose pack, and home stretching exercises.
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    • Jason Dragoo, MD

      Dr. Jason Dragoo operates on Nuggets' Greg Whittington

      Jan 19, 2021
      Jason Dragoo, MD, performed a knee arthroscopy on Denver Nuggets forward Greg Whittington, the team reported Jan. 19. Mr. Whittington was on a two-way contract with the team. He'll be evaluated in four to six weeks. Dr. Dragoo performed the procedure at the UCHealth Inverness Orthopedics and Spine Surgery Center in Englewood, Colo.
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    • Teenager Is Pain Free Thanks To Robot-Assisted Spine Surgery

      Teenager Is Pain Free Thanks To Robot-Assisted Spine Surgery

      Sep 25, 2020
      AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– Nineteen-year-old Katie Kingston suffered with back pain for seven years. When it caused her to walk with a limp, the teenager from Loveland consulted an orthopedic surgeon at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
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    • Biden salutes troops as ‘spine of America’ on Veterans Day

      Biden salutes troops as ‘spine of America’ on Veterans Day

      Nov 10, 2021
      WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden saluted the nation’s military veterans as “the spine of America” on Thursday as he marked his first Veterans Day as president in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. “There’s nothing low risk or low cost about war for the women and men who fight it,” said Biden, whose administration earlier in the day announced a federal effort to better understand, identify and treat medical conditions suffered by troops deployed to toxic environments.
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    • Goldstein-Gallus- Orthopedic surgeons join UCHealth Spine Center

      Orthopedic surgeons join UCHealth Spine Center

      Jan 27, 2020
      UCHealth Memorial is launching its newest service, complex spine reconstruction, in combination with University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty. Dr. Christina Goldstein, left, and Dr. Christopher Gallus recently joined the UCHealth Spine Center. UCHealth photo. Two new orthopedic spine surgery experts will perform a wide variety of spine surgeries including decompression and decompression and fusion procedures for spine arthritis, spine deformity correction and management of spine infections and tumors.
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    • Dr. Evalina Burger “Medical Help Available" Covid-19

      10 Spine surgeons to know

      Nov 17, 2021
      Evalina Burger-Van der Walt, MD. University of Colorado Medicine (Aurora). Dr. Burger-Van der Walt treats adult patients and has a special interest in complex spine surgery, deformity and scoliosis. She also spends time as a mentor for orthopedic residents and spine fellows.
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    • Dr. Evalina Burger “Medical Help Available" Covid-19

      Spine surgeon leader to know: Dr. Evalina Burger of University of Colorado Spine Center

      Jan 16, 2019
      Evalina Burger, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. Dr. Burger serves as the orthopedic department chair at Aurora-based University of Colorado School of Medicine. She specializes in complex spinal surgery, adult deformity, spinal tumors and scoliosis and performs disc replacement procedures. She received her medical degree from the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and completed her orthopedic residency at the University of Pretoria School of Medicine in South Africa.
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    • Healio Ortho Today

      Acute paraspinal compartment syndrome following non-spinal orthopedic surgeryOpens in a new window

      Dec 15, 2021
      A 29-year-old non-smoking man with a BMI of 37 kg/m2 and history of bipolar disease sustained a right subtrochanteric femur fracture and pseudoaneurysm of his right proximal femoral artery after a gunshot in December 2016.
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