Orthopedics at Columbia Memorial Health

Columbia Memorial Health Bone & Joint Center

With locations in Catskill and Hudson, our highly trained team is committed to providing proactive care to every patient. We take the time to truly understand each condition and listen to every patient’s needs in order to provide the best possible treatment. Our doctors practice individualized care, and strive to keep lines of communication open throughout the process.

Precision Robotic Joint Replacement

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

Knee & Hip Pain

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)

Hand Injuries

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.

Shoulder Disorders

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

Advanced Care in the Hudson Valley

Columbia Memorial Health offers joint replacement technology known as Mako. Mako is a robotic surgical system that allows specially trained surgeons to dramatically improve the geometric accuracy of joint replacements. The result is more perfectly aligned joints that perform better, feel better, and should last longer. For the patient, that means quicker recovery times, a more natural feeling joint, and a better quality of life.

The Mako system uses 3-dimensional images of the patient’s knee or hip, and guides and stabilizes surgical tools in accordance with the surgeon’s plan to more accurately align the new joint with the patient’s natural anatomy.

Personalized Options for Every Ache & Pain

Everyone is different, and so are their needs. Our doctors treat each patient on an individual basis, exhausting all simpler, less invasive options before performing surgery. Often, an ailment can be treated without any surgical procedure at all.

At Columbia Memorial Bone & Joint Center, we are committed to making your experience as easy and pain-free as possible. We provide constant support before, during and after treatment to ensure total satisfaction.

Testimonials

Hear from two local residents as they talk about their experience with joint replacement at Columbia Memorial Health, and how surgery profoundly changed their lives for the better.