Orthopedics

Comprehensive, Top-Level Care for Musculoskeletal Conditions

Aria, a leading community-hospital system, has organized within its medical centers the most up-to-date patient-focused orthopedic service for needs from the routine to the most complex.  Aria orthopedics offers the highest quality surgical and non-surgical care for musculoskeletal conditions of all kinds.

Orthopedists at Aria care for the common, everyday problems of the bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissue and the more serious, chronic, or once-in-a-lifetime requirements for care.  They see patients with all types of disorders and have built a depth of experience to skillfully provide for conservative, noninvasive care as well as major and complex treatments and procedures.

The division’s hallmark is highly individualized,
personal, patient-oriented care.
Joint replacement
Surgeons in Aria’s outstanding joint replacement program have trained at some of the most renowned institutions for orthopedic care and have chosen to bring their high-level expertise to the Aria community, where they enjoy the opportunity to serve a diverse patient population with a wide spectrum of needs.  The field of joint replacement surgery involves primarily knee and hip replacement.  Patients who have suffered with severe arthritis or other processes involving these or other joints — and who have not responded well to medication, activity modification, injection treatments, and or other therapy — typically enjoy dramatic improvements in their lifestyles after undergoing joint replacement surgery.


Back and spinal conditions
Back problems are, unfortunately, all too common ailments, and one of the most prevalent orthopedic conditions.  They are often cited as the most common reason for adult visits to the doctor’s office.  Backs suffer a great deal of physical stress in a lifetime — stress that comes from even routine activities.  Add in strenuous physical work, athletics, repetitive motion, poor ergonomics, accidental injury, aging, and other factors, and any back can lose form and function and start hurting.  The back’s ability to cushion itself and surrounding structures and to hold its optimal form can deteriorate, compromising hard and soft tissue and affecting the delicate and intricate system of nerves that a back protects.  Vertebrae, discs, and the spinal cord and nerve roots can all suffer.

Learn more about care of back and back-related conditions at Aria.

The staff counsels the right combination of both expedient care and patience — as needed and appropriate — in overcoming orthopedic injuries or conditions.


Injuries & chronic conditions of the soft tissue (of the joints and musculature)
Tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and other connective tissue, as well as muscles, can strain, tear, or atrophy, bringing pain and problems with movement, exertion, posture, joint stability, and other aspects of a healthy, active, independent life.  Sports and work injuries, arthritis, muscle spasms are primarily soft-tissue problems that can require a wide range of types of interventions and care, including sometimes arthroscopy.

 
Breaks in bones — whether microscopic or complete — need prompt and skilled evaluation and often treatment to avoid complications and prevent life-long impairment.  Whether in the limbs, the hands or feet, the back, the pelvis, or any other areas, fractures require careful diagnosis and often highly knowledgeable casting, splinting, or other cushioning and protection, and sometimes surgical placement, pinning, or other structural reinforcement.

Learn more about care of fractures at Aria.

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Straddling all of these areas is the work that Aria’s orthopedists do to care for trauma patients.  The orthopedic staff serves as a key component of Aria’s highly regarded trauma program.   Available 24 hours every day to the emergency facilities in the Aria Health system, these specialists provide urgent care to patients with musculoskeletal injuries due to accidents, violence, or other acute, traumatic orthopedic needs.  
Find out about the exceptional rehabilitative services at Aria —
including the
Aria-MossRehab partnership.  Learn more.


As centers for orthopedic care, Aria’s hospitals also train orthopedic medical interns and residents, and serve as a learning ground for therapists and trainers.  Senior attending surgeons oversee the care of all patients and serve as team leaders.

Throughout all segments of orthopedic care, the Aria staff prides itself on its patient, practiced use of conservative therapies whenever possible.  Every visit is about learning what the patient is experiencing and understanding how he or she is progressing, and what the right measures are for restoration and healing.  Only if all less-interventional approaches to care are exhausted does the team recommend surgical intervention.

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