The changes align with Vanderbilt Health’s strategic vision for growth, including regional expansion and the development of innovative rehabilitation and pain medicine services.

“These robotic knee surgeries allow us to be more precise,” said orthopaedic surgeon Eric Barlow, DO. “It allows us to know, within a millimeter, if our cuts are accurate. … You just don’t have that same kind of accuracy with conventional instrumentation.”

Thumb carpometacarpal implant arthroplasty with Touch prosthesis is “like a small total hip replacement within the thumb joint.”

Thirteen patients received free orthopaedic surgeries, including five sports cases, six hand/upper extremity cases and, for the first time, two foot and ankle surgeries.

These are part of the APTA’s annual Honors & Awards Program, which celebrates people who have made extraordinary contributions to the profession through research, education, service and clinical practice.

Older adults experiencing dual decline are at greater risk of developing dementia than those with changes in only one area. 

The webinar will bring together a group of experts from the youth, high school and college levels — including Alex Diamond, DO, MPH, director of the Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center.