Joint Preservation, Reconstruction, Replacement

To stay active at work, with family and during sports or leisure time, you may need orthopedic care that involves joint preservation, joint reconstruction or joint replacement.

Expert Orthopedic Joint Care Close to Home

When you choose OU Health in Oklahoma City and Edmond for joint-related care, you gain access to a multidisciplinary team of orthopedic experts and medical specialists who work together to evaluate your particular condition and develop a personalized care plan designed to optimize your specific situation.

Innovative Technologies Backed by Scientific Research

This team-based approach to care also uses the results of ongoing advanced scientific research and groundbreaking technologies developed by orthopedic clinician scientists, biomedical engineers and tissue engineering biologists at OU Health, one of the most well-regarded health science centers in the United States.

Joint Care Services at OU Health

Take advantage of a wide range of joint care services at OU Health including:

• Joint preservation – Helps maintain your natural joint through corrective realignment procedures, cartilage transplant, orthobiologics and more

• Joint reconstruction – Repairs or rebuilds one or more joints affected by injury, congenital abnormality, post-traumatic arthritis, fracture or complex joint/health conditions; limb lengthening procedures; primary reconstruction; complex reconstruction; robotic-assisted/minimally invasive reconstruction

• Joint replacement – Involves partial or total replacement of a major joint, such as shoulder, elbow, hip, knee or ankle; robotic-assisted/minimally invasive procedures

Joint Preservation at OU Health

Joint preservation techniques – many available in Oklahoma only from the orthopedic experts at OU Health – can help extend your ability to function well. Especially as an active young person, you may avoid early joint replacement when you and your care team choose one of several innovative and less invasive treatments, such as injections of platelet-rich plasma and bone marrow or other orthobiologics.

Joint preservation procedures for injuries or chronic conditions of joints in your hips, knees, ankles or feet may involve cartilage transplant or corrective osteotomy, which realigns the joint to restore the mechanical axis of the extremity and prolong the life of the original joint.

Options also may include arthroscopic procedures or robotic-assisted, minimally invasive surgery procedures.

Learn more about related surgery services at OU Health.

Your OU Health Orthopedic Care Team

Your experienced OU Health orthopedic care team includes board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, vascular surgeons, infectious disease specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors or sports medicine physicians, orthotists, prosthetists or pedorthists.

Your team also may involve OU Health neurologists, cardiovascular medicine physicians, geriatricians, pain management specialists, primary care doctors, bariatric specialists, athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists or psychologists, social workers and counselors.

When you work with this diverse team of OU Health 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 the OU Health academic medical center, as well as their activities in teaching the next generation of orthopedic specialists and surgeons.