When Dr. Bennie Lindeque met Chris Brown, he made her an offer that many could have refused.
It was July 2018 and Brown, then 59, was at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus, far from her home in Anchorage, Alaska. She was in torment, her body assailed by a deadly bacterial infection that covered her body in lesions and nodules, invaded her lungs and threatened her life.
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.
Amputees find lasting solution to an old prosthesis problem at UCHealth. "They’re actually able to feel the pressure they’re putting through the ground through their prosthesis."
In its 20th year, the mission of the ISMF Conference is to educate, train, and motivate sports medicine fellows on all state-of-the-art and innovative concepts, technology and techniques – including knee joint preservation, patellofemoral, and beyond. In these next few days, we hope you will take advantage of networking with your peers and the course faculty.
Dr. Kenneth Hunt vividly remembers how, as a high school football player in the 1990s, he and his teammates often ran up and down stadium stairs during practice.Their coach made the players run the steps as part of the team's conditioning regimen to strengthen their legs, improve their cardiovascular systems and boost their balance.
They may look graceful as they leap with apparent effortlessness and land with flair, but figure skaters return to Earth with forces of up to about eight times their body weight on ice not known for its forgiveness.
While arthritis pain was a serious factor in her decision to undergo knee-replacement surgery, a prime motivator for Tess McDowell, second from right, was restoring her ability to be active with her family. With her from left are granddaughter Tess, daughter Michaela, son-in-law Mike, and grandsons Michael and Donnie Landwehr; and husband Don of 52 years. (Photo courtesy of Tess McDowell)
Randy Joseph was up and walking within a few hours, driving in four days, and hiking at Horsetooth Reservoir in Fort Collins, Colorado after his hip-replacement surgery at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Photo by Joel Blocker, for UCHealth.
Blake Learned rides his mountain bike near Moab, Utah, in 2019. The prosthetic hip that enabled such adventures would, after a nasty fall and subsequent infection, need replacing. Photo courtesy of Blake Learned