Orthopedics

If you or your loved ones break a bone, sprain a wrist or ankle, pull a muscle or live with health conditions that affect your bones, joints, muscles, tendons or other connective tissues, find expert care for yourself or your child, teen or young adult to help return to or support as much function as possible, stay active and continue to get around in the world.

Expert Orthopedic Services Close to Home

When you choose OU Health in Oklahoma City, Tulsa or Edmond for your family’s orthopedic care, you work with a team of experts from multiple healthcare specialties who collaborate with you or your loved ones to evaluate the condition from all perspectives, develop an accurate diagnosis and create an individualized treatment plan that fits your specific situation.

Caring for Your Orthopedic Conditions

At OU Health, you’ll find comprehensive care for a wide range of conditions related to bones, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles, including:

• Amputation
• Arthritis and rheumatic diseases – Osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
• Complex joint fractures – Includes failure to heal or healing in wrong position
• Compression fractures from osteoporosis
• Congenital deformities
• Degenerative conditions – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis (MS), muscular dystrophy (MD), Parkinson’s disease and more
• Foot and ankle disorders – Bunions, fasciitis, hammer toe, heel spurs
• Hand injuries – Carpal tunnel syndrome, ganglion cyst, fracture
• Joint preservation – Hips, hands, knees, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot
• Ligament damage
• Musculoskeletal tumors
• Shoulder and elbow disorders – Bursitis, frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tear, tendinitis, labrum and SLAP lesion tears, dislocation or separation, golfer’s or tennis elbow
• Spinal conditions – Herniated disk, scoliosis, spinal stenosis, spinal tumor, spinal cord injury
• Sports-related trauma

Innovative Orthopedic Treatments

Take advantage of OU Health’s expert orthopedic physicians and surgeons for exceptional care that supports your skeleton, joints, connective tissues and muscles with a variety of innovative medical (noninvasive) and orthopedic surgery services such as:

• Arthrogram – X-ray of joints
• Arthroplasty or complex revision arthroplasty – Restores joint function or repairs previous surgical outcomes
• Arthroscopy – Minimally invasive procedure to assess or remove damaged tissues within a joint
• Computed tomography (CT) scans
• Corticosteroid injections – Reduces pain and improves function in joints, tendons and ligaments
• Foot and ankle procedures – Repairs or replaces bones or joints
• General orthopedics – Treats diseases, injuries and conditions of the musculoskeletal system
• Hand surgery – Uses delicate minimally invasive and robotic-assisted procedures to repair nerves, tendons, ligaments and muscles
• Hyaluronic acid injections – Relieves arthritis pain in joints
• Kyphoplasty – Relieves pain from spinal compression fracture
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan
• Minimally invasive surgery – Transplants for bone or cartilage
• Oncology (cancer)-related procedures, including tumor removal surgery
• Platelet-rich plasma and bone marrow injections – Enhances joint healing and speeds recovery
• Spine care – Spine injections and surgical procedures, including foraminotomy
• Sports medicine – Extensive sports medicine services including physical therapy and rehabilitation for many orthopedic and sports-related conditions at all major OU Health locations, including Edmond, along with our dedicated sports performance clinic in Tulsa.
• Trauma care – Expert orthopedic services through Oklahoma’s only Level I trauma center at OU Health
• Upper extremity orthopedics, lower extremity orthopedics, and upper and lower extremity reconstructive procedures

Learn more about orthotics and prosthetics, as well as surgery services, at OU Health.

Your Orthopedics Care Team

In addition to board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors or sports medicine physicians, orthotists, prosthetists or pedorthists, your OU Health orthopedics care team also may include neurologists, pain management specialists, primary care doctors, athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists or psychologists, social workers and counselors.

When you work with OU Health’s orthopedic experts, you benefit from innovations in orthopedic medical care and orthopedic surgical techniques that come from their ongoing participation in the latest research and clinical trials at OU Health’s academic medical center and their involvement in teaching the next generation of orthopedic specialists and surgeons.