Any knee orthopedic surgeons recommended?

[asystejs]

Why wife had knee replacement by Dr Foran with Panorama and Colorado Orthopedics. Excellent results.

Back in 1988 I broke a bone in my hand.
Dr Stahl at Panorama did a great job fixing it.

[Ramsker]

Dr Hugate and Dr. Furan from panoramic are the two surgeons that fixed and partially replaced my knee a week and a half ago. Eight days after surgery, I went up our 75' ladder truck with full bunkets and pack. There is very little pain, but still some swelling. I go back to see Dr. Hugate on Monday to hopefully be released back to work. They did an excellent job. I was told my knee was a very complex surgery, I don't know on the simple ones.

Called their office to ask some questions . . . sounds like Hugate doesn't really take knee stuff unless it's replacement or at risk kind of stuff (doesn't really do just the soft tissue side from what they told me). Said they'd refer me over to their Sports Med team, which I guess could mean Gottlob as an option. Although at some point--that knee will certainly have to be replaced down the road when it finally wears out completely.

Will continue to check out and research all the suggestions. Appreciate it, guys!

[Delfuego]

Only go to Sports Medicine guys for knees. That's their specialty.

[hatidua]

I tweaked my knee a year ago, did the MRI, saw two highly regarded sports ortho surgeons, both said the knife wouldn't help me. Both said the steroid injections were a "mask" but they were happy to give them. I'll limp along and deal with it as-is.

Good luck.

[MrPrena]

CU sports med (UC health Anchutz). I went to those guys for my knee. Their orthopedics is higher quality than Keck (USC, LA rams sports med), Geffen (UCLA), or even Kerlan and Jobe (who did 1st Tommy Johns).

If you decide to do uc health, let me know.

Btw their rhumatology/immunology dept is even more remarkable.

* note: their staff and standards of practice only. This is not a recommendation for med school, residency or fellow (ship) ]program.

[thebolt]

Dr. John Xenos is the man. He is very busy and comes highly recommended by medical professionals that used his service. I'm a previous patient and highly recommend him hips and knee related issues. Dr. Xenos He takes the time to talk to you and he will spend a much time with you as you need, based upon your questions and needs, not his own. He gets behind by doing this but his level of care is unmatched.

https://www.orthotree.com/john-soteros-xenos-md.html

[Ramsker]

Quick update . . .

I just got back from the follow-up at the original ortho (this is Steadman Hawkins over in DTC). Everything in the last voice message and quick convo I had with a scheduing person led me to believe that they were just going to have me see the PA. That message basically said there was no tear and they could discuss PT and possibly injections and seemed like that was that. But I ended up actually seeing the surgeon and having a pretty good conversation.

Told him the MRI results they relayed actually left me with more questions than answers based on my past experiences and what this still felt like. He kind of laughed and said, like me, he was half-expecting to see a tear of some kind based on my symptoms and description. The swelling has come down quite a bit with the icing I have been doing and the knee was feeling incrementally "better" in some ways, but I still have that meniscus-tear-like feeling that goes in and out--seemingly less often but still painful. He brought up the MRI and we walked through it and I discussed what was still going on and what aggravated it. Asked if it's possible that the MRI could be missing something.

He said it's possible . . . although typically the size and severity where it's causing people issues is usually pretty reliably shown--but not 100%. Ran through a few more tests on the knee. He said he'd like to give it a few more weeks to see how it it goes and if it keeps improving. Said to give it another week of taking it a bit easy and icing but then to start testing it out a bit more with increased activity and see how things go. If the pain and issues aren't going away, he said it may very well be necessary to scope it and have a look and see if there's anything there that can be addressed that just isn't making itself known on the imaging.

So, that seems reasonable to me and I'll give that a fair shot. If that doesn't bear fruit . . . I have a number of great suggestions to wade through for a second opinion. I want to thank you all for the posts and PM's. Everyone here is always a tremendous help with all sorts of topics.

[Gman]

I hope it continues to improve and you get healed up soon.

[Ramsker]

I hope it continues to improve and you get healed up soon.

Yeah . . . I hope so, but I'm skeptical that it's not something torn or floating around in there that will have to be addressed. At least he agreed that it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility and said it may be one of those deals where you just have to scope it to find out if there's no joy on the added time. I'll give it a fair shake to wait it out a few weeks longer.

[Gman]

You taking anti-inflammatories?