Orthopedics at Columbia Memorial Health

Specializing in an array of orthopedic treatments, our doctors provide high quality care and support to guide you through total joint replacement surgery. Precision robotic joint replacement surgery at Columbia Memorial Health means:

• Better balanced, more natural feeling joints
• Significant reduction or elimination of chronic joint pain
• Shorter post-surgical hospitalization
• A quicker return to a more active life
• A comprehensive and caring patient experience in a modern, private room with stunning views of the Catskills and Hudson River

We strives to fully exhaust all non-surgical and minimally-invasive treatments before choosing to perform surgery. To prolong the lifespan of arthritic joints, we are happy to work with our patients non-operatively using a variety of techniques. Non-operative options may include:

• Activity modification
• Weight loss
• Assistive devices
• Bracing
• Physical therapy
• Topical medications
• Oral medications
• Cortisone injections
• Hyaluronic acid injections (lubrication injections)

Using a knife in the kitchen, gardening, working around the house with log splitters or saws or fixing a jammed snowblower are common causes for hand injuries in the Hudson Valley. Tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tennis elbow are other potential consequences associated with these routine tasks. We treat tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other debilitating conditions on a case-by-case basis, often with non-invasive methods.

From broken wrists to cut fingers, arthritis and repetitive motion injuries, we can treat all your orthopedic injuries and conditions. We can also diagnose and remedy your inflamed tendons, creaky joints and hands that go numb. We will explain the surgical and non-surgical options and work with you in developing a treatment plan that best fits you.

Some very irritating, painful conditions can be fixed with just an injection or a five minute outpatient surgery, leaving many patients to wonder why they waited so long to seek treatment.

We treat the full spectrum of shoulder disorders in all age groups. Most shoulder problems can be managed non-operatively through a home exercise or formal physical therapy regimen, or with medications or injections. If surgery does become necessary, we are prepared with a variety of arthroscopic and traditional open surgical approaches. Most instability and rotator cuff surgery is approached through a minimally invasive, arthroscopic technique. Resurfacing, partial, total and reverse total shoulder replacements are also common operations to treat degenerative shoulder conditions.

Common problems include:

• Dislocations
• Tendonitis
• Impingement
• Rotator cuff tears
• Fractures
• Arthritis