If you've dislocated your AC joint, most commonly from football or falling off your bicycle, the clavicle is often sticking right up. At The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, Dr. Kevin Stone is able to fix this injury, both acutely and later on chronically by taking a new ligament and rebuilding the joint.
Our biceps is our “Popeye” muscle, long associated with strength and vitality. But when the tendon of the biceps becomes painful and inflamed, drastic measures like surgical excision are often the treatment of choice. That should change - and it will.Â
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Taping treatment for AC joint injuries.
If you've dislocated your shoulder, it means it came right out of the joint, tearing the ligaments at the front of the shoulder. At The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, we can repair these shoulder ligaments as an out patient procedure and you can prevent this from happening again.
Collarbone (clavicle) fractures are painful and often don't heal well. When they're significantly displaced, it's better to fix them. At The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, we no longer need to use plates and screws and open incisions to do this. We are able to do a percutaneous repair through a very small incision.
A partial knee replacement is great if your knee is only damaged in one particular area. We use a computer with a robotic arm in order to improve the accuracy of the partial knee replacement. Arthritis of the knee is when you've lost the soft cushioning at the end of your joints and your bones are rubbing together. If your arthritis is too severe for The Stone Clinic's bioknee procedure a partial knee replacement is the next best thing.
If you've lost the meniscus cartilage inside your knee, that's the key shock absorber in the knee, at The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, Dr. Kevin Stone hasÂ
developed a technique for replacing the meniscus cartilage using donor tissue. This will give you back your shock absorber and away a lot of the pain from acute injuries as well as from fairly significant arthritis.
The meniscus cartilage is the key shock absorber inside your knee. If you've damaged your meniscus, it's very important that you try to have it repaired or save it as much as possible. If you lose even part of it, you increase the force inside the knee and can develop arthritis. At The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, Dr. Kevin Stone has developed a number of techniques for rebuilding, repairing and regenerating the meniscus.
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At The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, if our patients have severe arthritis and can not be treated with a bioknee or with a partial knee replacement, we use a robotic arm to place the implants extremely accurately.
At the Stone Clinic in San Francisco we've developed an alternative to joint replacement that we call BIOKNEE. If you've got a painful knee either because you've got arthritis or you've lost the meniscus cartilage, we can put back in the biological tissues that you've lost. We can put back in a new meniscus cartilage from a donor, we graft your damaged articular cartilage with your own bone and cartilage and stem cells and we recreate those new surfaces biologically rather than with artificial materials.
