Patient Education Listing
In the following video, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons demonstrates how to navigate airport security with a joint replacement…
ALIF is generally used to treat back or leg pain caused by degenerative disc disease. The surgeon will stabilize the spine by fusing vertebrae…
The spinal column is the body's main support structure. Its thirty-three bones, called vertebrae, are divided into five regions: cervical,…
Conscious sedation is a type of anesthesia that makes the patient feel very relaxed. It reduces painful sensations and the awareness of pain.
This surgery removes a herniated or degenerative vertebral disc in your neck and replaces it with a bone graft. This can relieve painful pressure…
This surgery removes a herniated or diseased disc and relieves neck and radiating arm pain caused by parts of the disc pressing on nerve roots.…
At Appalachian Orthopedics, we are dedicated to taking a team approach when it comes to hip pain.
This minimally-invasive surgery is used to help relieve pain and loss of mobility in the shoulder from adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder).
During this outpatient procedure, the surgeon examines the inside of the elbow joint with a camera called an arthroscope.
If you have a painful shoulder, you may have a torn labrum. That's a tear of the thick band of tissue around your shoulder socket.
This is a type of x-ray that measures your bone density. Your doctor may recommend it if you're at risk for osteoporosis (that's a weakening of…
This is an irritation or swelling of the trochanteric bursa. This small, fluid-filled sac is found on the outer side of the femur.
This surgical procedure creates more space for the spinal cord and nerve roots to relieve the painful pressure of spinal stenosis, a narrowing of…
This surgery creates more space for a compressed spinal nerve in your neck. The procedure relieves painful pressure caused by a herniated or…
This condition is an irritation or compression of one or more nerve roots in the cervical spine.
