Recently, Assistant Chief of Staff Philip L. Wilson, M.D., and pediatric orthopedic surgeon Henry B. Ellis, M.D., published a novel technique for treating an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. Too many young and growing athletes who have an ACL injury and...
Surgery
Physician Leadership: As health care moves to value, more leaders going to PROMs
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROM), which are stored in the clinical record, help physicians optimize treatment. These surveys can shed light on important factors following treatment, such as how the patient feels about their quality of life after treatment and...
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Article originally published by staff orthopedist Amy L. McIntosh, M.D., in first quarter, 2018 issue of Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas newsletter. What is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a rotation in the spinal column that creates a “C”-shaped single curve or an...