Here at Baptist Health Medical Group Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, we treat a variety of injuries. It can be from broken bones to overuse injuries, sprains, strains, wear and tear, arthritis, kind of a wide array of things on a daily basis. There's lots of injuries that we see that involve athletes that are actively competing at say the high school level and then there's the weekend warrior athlete like myself who still considers himself an athlete but they all still get hurt just the same. The goal is to get them back to that same standard they were at before they got injured.
Some of our more common procedures would be hip and knee replacement, shoulder and knee arthroscopy, carpal tunnel release, cubital tunnel release, and a Linder transposition, trigger finger surgery, basic fracture care, and management of broken bones.
As people age, a lot of times things will kind of wear out a little bit and some of those people are able to manage those things with modifying their activity, maybe taking a little bit of medicine, maybe slowing down a little bit, but some people don't want to slow down. They want to continue doing the stuff that they love to do and sometimes it does require surgery to get them back to that level of expectation and it ultimately comes down to quality of life.
People just aren't willing to give up on some things they want to do, and we want to help to get them back to those things so they can enjoy the rest of their lives.
So I'm from this area, it's really neat to be able to take care of people, sometimes even teachers you had in school, and be able to see the impact you can make on their lives, the ability to affect people's quality of life on a day to day basis and make that improvement to get them back to their activities or improve their quality of life so they can live a better life is truly amazing.
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