Complications occur in patients even when we perform surgical tasks with the highest level of skill. As orthopedic surgeons, the only way to avoid surgical complications is not to operate.
Test your affinity for adventure and learn how athletes achieve feats that non-athletes might consider crazy at Extreme Sports: Beyond Human Limits, a new exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Physical therapist Chelsea Holt demonstrates how to do a lateral single leg hop exercise at The Sports Medicine and Performance Center at The University of Colorado Boulder. (Rachel Ellis, The Denver Post)
Dr. Eric McCarty is a nationally and internationally recognized sports medicine trained orthopedic surgeon and shoulder specialist. He serves as the Chief of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery and is a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He also is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Coach Prime nor any of his staff or players will have far to travel for what are traditional “off campus” medical needs - because the #ColoradoUniversity medical center is in the same building as Football Operations - Coach Prime recently toured and Thee Pregame Show was there for it.
Dr. Eric McCarty is a renowned orthopedic surgeon and the Chief Medical Officer for the University of Colorado Boulder's Athletic Department. He was recently inducted into the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame in 2022.
University of Colorado Boulder Director of Sports Medicine Dr. Eric McCarty conducts a telemedicine appointment with Gerald Thurston in his office on Thursday on the CU campus in Boulder.
After blowing out ACL, former DU star seizes on second chance to get drafted. Dr. Eric McCarty: Head Team Physician for CU, DU, and the Avalanche, joins K&L to discuss his thoughts on Jamal Murray tearing his ACL.
Minutes after the start of the 2010 showdown football game against Colorado State, a CU player lies on the field clutching his right knee.
He’s brought to the bench limping. Assistants ease him onto a table. And Dr. Eric McCarty goes to work.
“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.
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.
"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.
Service to patients. Passion and drive. Excellence, integrity, and humanism. Those and many other qualities were cited by admiring presenters as University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty were honored July 29 at the school’s Distinguished Clinician and Distinguished Faculty Professionalism Awards ceremony.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.