Summer Roundup

May - Newcastle England – Newcastle is a beautiful city about three hours north of London. It took awhile to get there as the plane out of Detroit was delayed almost 5 hours. The weather was fantastic and sunny. The medieval architecture and old castle and church were breathtaking. It’s hard to comprehend sections of the city standing for over 900 years. Took in our first cricket match in Durham and it was great, even though the home team lost 136 to 137. The meeting involved teaching shoulder arthroscopy, including rotator cuff and instability repairs as well as very difficult posterior labral tears and instability of the shoulder. We also covered knee arthroscopy, including double bundle ACL reconstructions, as well as hip arthroscopy with labral repair. Representatives were present from Turkey, Ireland, North America, Lybia, Egypt, South Africa, England, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. The meeting was hosted by Linvatec and was a fantastic trip with the opportunity to teach new techniques to such a broad audience.

June – Visiting Surgeon in to learn about hip arthroscopy from Orlando, FL. We performed two surgeries, including a labral repair and psoas release as well as an Iliotibial band release and trochanteric bursectomy along with labral debridement.

July – Spoke at a meeting in Hawaii on anatomic ACL reconstructions. ACL tears are extremely common and debate over how to repair them (ie--single bundle or double bundle) continues. Your original ACL has two bundles but it can be very difficult to place two bundles back into the knee. Anatomic reconstruction whether it’s single bundle or double bundle simply means placing the graft in the normal anatomic position for that bundle. Surgeons came in from New Zealand and Australia, so this was a very fun meeting.

August - A busy month. I had a teaching engagement where I talked about rotator cuff repairs and prehabilitation for shoulder injuries for a physicians educational Seminar. I landed in Florida on the 6th to work on more prototype testing for my clavicle nail with the company that I am in development with and then spoke in Bella Vista at the end of the month on Arthritis and injury prevention. In between these I taught hip arthroscopy and my patent pending ACL reconstructions in Oahu, Hawaii.