Volume 2 Issue 1 Healthy Living Li ncoln Orthopaedic Center, P.C. Dedicated Surgical Expertise Midwest Physical Therapy & Sports Center Specialists in sports injury rehabilitationBritnee Vavra, PTA Renee Tewes, PT, Owner Roxie Tesmer, PT Nicole Vyhnalek, PTA Dawn Bonness, MPT, CMLDT Jill Korta, MPT, ATC Kristi Roddel, PTA Karen Stille, PT, MA, CSCS Eric Schussler, MPT, ATC Adam Mailander, OT, CHT Darci Fanning, MPT, CSCS Shawntae Horst, DPT Kim Knopik, PT, MPA Moving You to Wellness Pool Therapy available at Prairie Life and The Landing 4 Convenient Locations 6900 A Street, Ste 102 Expanded Hours 2801 Pine Lake Road Including same-day appts 5790 N. 33rd St. Circle Mon-Fri 7am-6pm Ashland - 15th & Silver 402-436-2535 Sat 7am-Noon (A St. Only) www.MidwestPhysicalTherapy.com Welcome Message from Lincoln Orthopaedic Center We are pleased to bring you the second issue of Lincoln Orthopaedic Center - Healthy Living Magazine. It is our continued mission to help you, our patients and partners through education and expert Inside This Issue care, when needed. Inside this issue you will nd interesting and valuable articles about orthopaedic 4. Patient Story: procedures, MRI services and sports medicine. We Cindy Bassinger aim to motivate you with our patient story about joint Weight Loss and Joint replacement and weight loss. There are also safety tips Replacement Dr. Matt Reckmeyer, MD LOC President for you to peruse before your annual pumpkin carving. 5. Lincoln Orthopaedic Center, PC Receives MRI LOC continues to experience positive changes through the ever changing and sometimes turbulent economy and medical industry. We were pleased to have Dr. Accreditation Douglas Koch start a new outreach clinic at Saunders Medical Center in Wahoo. LOC 6. Hand Surgeons Warn of sports medicine continues to be well received in and around Lincoln. The most recent Pumpkin Carving Dangers sports programs we provide athletic trainers for include, Capital City Crush football team, David City Aquinas, Parkview Christian and York Public Schools. We are happy 8. I’ve Been Diagnosed with a to work with the Lincoln Saltdogs, Lincoln Stars, Concordia University, Doane College, Herniated Disc — What Do I Do Now? Wesleyan University and Lincoln Lutheran, Lincoln Christian, Seward Public Schools. In addition, we provide athletic trainers for Eastern Nebraska O cials Association, 10. Our Physicians Lincoln Rugby Club, High School Rugby Club, Junior Stars, Lincoln Ice Hockey Association, Lincoln Midget Football League and Lincoln Youth Softball Association. Our Locations 12. With the growth of our practice we have added new members to the LOC family 13. Dr. Doug Tewes of LOC including 1 nurse practitioner and 3 more athletic trainers. That puts us at 9 surgeons, Earns Sports Medicine 4 physician assistants, 1 nurse practitioner, 7 athletic trainers and 73 additional Board Certi cation support sta . We are very fortunate to have an exceptional group of people working at LOC. 14. Lincoln Orthopaedic Center Sports Medicine Program Last, but certainly not least, LOC wants to extend a big thank you to our advertisers. We could not achieve this publication without your continued support. Thank you! 16. Orthopedics 101 Stay Active, Lincoln Orthopaedic Center’s Healthy Living Magazine is designed and published by Medical Custom Medical Design Group. To advertise Matt Reckmeyer, MD in an upcoming issue please contact us at: 800.246.1637 or www.CustomMedicalMagazine.com. This publication LOC President may not be reproduced in part or whole without the express written consent of Custom Medical Design Group. Custom Medical Design Group does not endorse the contents of this journal. www.ortholinc.com 3 Patient Story: Cindy Bassinger Weight Loss and Joint Replacement indy Bassinger is a knee “I did not want to go the surgical route replacement patient from for weight loss. If it was meant to CUnadilla, Nebraska. But, she is come off it will, the natural way.” And, not only that, Cindy is a survivor. She that is exactly what happened. Cindy has taken back her life and shed 48 began walking around Unadilla. She pounds after her joint replacement was able to shed ten pounds prior to surgery. her knee replacement surgery. After her surgery in June 2011, she was Cindy spent many years taking care determined to lose more weight. She of her diabetic husband, all the while, was walking with only a cane at her two in pain. “I was 296 pounds at my week follow up, “Dr. Bigelow was very heaviest. It was hard to even get out pleased with the results from surgery of a chair”. Her husband passed from and that I was down 22 pounds.” At a massive heart attack in May 2008. her five week follow up appointment, Soon after, Cindy decided it was time Cindy was walking with no cane, while to make a major lifestyle change. “I many patients require one. know my family and most of all my grandchildren need me.” She had To date, Cindy has lost a total of 48 severe knee pain and was not happy pounds by continued walking and with the life she was living. watching what she eats. Cindy said, “I have a whole new outlook on life. The past ten years she sought outside I can go to car shows with my friends solutions for her aching joints. She and walk around all day with no pain. I started with a series of cortisone shots am more active with my grandchildren and sinvisc treatments. Eventually, and I am able to travel to Texas now to the less invasive treatments stopped see my daughter and her family.” working. Cindy made an appointment with Dr. Bigelow at Johnson County At the end of our conversation, Cindy Hospital in Tecumseh. At that time, floated out of the coffee shop as she Dr. Bigelow suggested she lose weight said, “I was able to prove to myself which will help her aching joints. That I could lose the weight and I am not was not a message that was easy to going to stop at 48 pounds. I feel great hear, but Dr. Bigelows advice coupled about myself.” Way to go Cindy!! ■ with the loss of her husband, prompted Cindy to begin her weight loss journey. For your appointment, please call 402-436-2000. 4 Salient Surgical Technologies develops and manufactures advanced energy devices that provide hemostatic sealing of soft tissue and bone during surgical oncology, orthopedic reconstruction, spine and orthopedic trauma procedures. Lincoln Orthopaedic Center, PC Receives Cathy Dorenbach MRI Accreditation Employee Benefi t Specialist agnetic resonance is an extremely useful diagnostic imaging tool, performed an estimated 28 million times annually in the United States. MRI enables interpreting physicians to visualize the structure and Midlands Financial Benefi ts, Inc. M 7101 S 82nd Lincoln NE 68516 function of the body. Magnetic resonance is a complex imaging technique that (402) 434-8050 Fax (402) 434-8051 relies on the experience and training of both the physician and the technologist. www.midfi n.com Lincoln Orthopaedic Center, PC (LOC) has been granted accreditation in the areas of musculoskeletal MRI from the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories (ICAMRL). LOC is one of the first 500 MRI Labs in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico to be so recognized for its commitment to high quality patient care and its provision We are proud to support of quality diagnostic testing. Participation in the accreditation process is Lincoln Orthopaedic Center voluntary. Those applying for accreditation are required to document detailed and wishWe are them proud continued to support success. information about all operational and technical components and submit Lincoln (800)Orthopaedic 421-1834 • www.callcopic.com Center protocols and case studies for review by a panel of experts. In this case, Dr. and wish them continued success. Regina Robinson-Noble, Dr. Douglas Tewes and Amanda Filipi R.T. comprise the Quality Assurance Committee for Lincoln Orthopaedic Center. ■ For more information about LOC and our MRI capabilities please call 402-436-2000 or go to www.ortholinc.com (800) 421-1834 · www.callcopic.com www.ortholinc.com 5 Hand Surgeons Warn of Pumpkin Carving Dangers Use caution during the Halloween season, and take steps to prevent hand injuries when carving. very Halloween season we see four says Wint. “Even though the carving may be Use a Pumpkin Carving Kit or ve patients—both adults and going great, it only takes a second for an “Echildren—who come into our o ce injury to occur.” Special pumpkin carving kits are available in with severe injuries to their hands and ngers,” stores and include small serrated pumpkin says Je rey Wint, MD, an ASSH member from Leave the Carving to Adults saws that work better because they are less The Hand Center of Western Massachusetts, likely to get stuck in the thick pumpkin tissue. Spring eld, MA. “Treatment can often run Never let children do the carving. Wint “If they do get jammed and then wedged three to four months from the time of surgery suggests letting kids draw a pattern on the free, they are not sharp enough to cause a through rehabilitation.” pumpkin and have them be responsible deep, penetrating cut,” says Wint. for cleaning out the inside pulp and seeds. To prevent hand injuries, the ASSH suggests When the adults do start cutting, they should Help for a Pumpkin Carving Injury the following safety tips: always cut away from themselves and cut in small, controlled strokes. Should you cut your nger or hand, bleeding Carve at a Clean, Dry, Well-lit Area from minor cuts will often stop on their own Sharper is not Better by applying direct pressure to the wound Wash and thoroughly dry all of the tools that with a clean cloth.