LATEST NEWS & INFORMATION

Northshore Orthopedic would like to welcome Bill Meritt to our staff.  He is now seeing patients in our new physical therapy department.

Ultrasound imaging is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.

Dr. Stanley recently earned his Board Certification in Orthopedic Surgery from the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons. Certification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery means that the orthopaedic surgeon has met the specified educational, evaluation, and examination requirements of the Board. The board certification process includes many components including:

• Must have graduated from an accredited medical school and passed all examinations necessary to receive an unrestricted medical license.
• Must have satisfactorily completed five years of graduate orthopedic surgery education in an accredited orthopedic surgery residency program in the United States or Canada. The residency training must include experience with all age groups in operative and non-operative treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, diseases and deformities in pediatric orthopedics, total join and other arthritis surgery, sports medicine, the spine, foot and ankle, elbow and shoulder, hand rehabilitation, fractures and other injuries, benign and malignant tumors of bone, joints and muscles and arthroscopy.
• After completing graduate orthopedic surgery residency education, a doctor must meet stringent criteria to become Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery including a full, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the United States, 22 months of practice of operative orthopedic surgery, demonstration of professional proficiency and ethical practice based on recommendations from physicians familiar with his/her practice; and pass both written and oral examinations.

Each orthopedic surgeron must maintain their certification by completing 120 hours of pertinent continuing medical education, undergoing a stringent peer review process to make certain they are respected by their peers and practicing ethical orthopaedic surgery, and taking and passing a written or oral examination. This maintenance of certification process must be performed every seven to ten years.

What is the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery?

The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Inc. was founded in 1934 as a private, voluntary, nonprofit, independent organization to serve the best interests of the public and the medical profession. These interests are achieved through the ABOS by establishing standards for the education of orthopaedic surgeons. These standards are evaluated by the ABOS through examinations and practice evaluations.

The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery is one of twenty-four certifying boards that have met the educational and organizational requirements necessary for membership in the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery are distinguished orthopaedic surgeons who are active in patient care, education and research.

All Northshore Orthopedic physicians are board certified in orthopedic surgery by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons. For more information, please visit The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery website, www.abos.org.

Northshore Orthopedic is Going GREEN in 2010! We will be implementing an Electronic Medical Records System early in the first quarter of 2010 eliminating paper charts and much of the excess paper in our office. Patients will be able to complete their new demographic information on our website and much more decreasing their pre-appointment time needed in our office.

We offer MRI services on-site every Tuesday for our patients’ convenience. MRI studies are read by a Muscle Skeletal Specialty Radiologist and results are available the following day to our physicians.

Did you know? When there is an accident or injury on the field, it's good to have a doctor around. Dr. Hillsgrove and the other physicians of Northshore Orthopedic are proud to have been the on field physicians for Mooresville High School Football for the past 15 years!

Rodney J. Stanley, MD, of Northshore Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center, presented several research projects at the 10th International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil. Dr. Stanley gave two podium presentations:

• EVALUATION OF ROTATOR CUFF MUSCLE FATTY DEGENERATION USING MRI: COMPARISON OF AXIAL AND PARASAGITTAL VIEWS
• TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY OUTCOMES AND WORKER'S COMPENSATION CLAIMS

And two poster presentations:

• COMPUTER-AIDED NAVIGATION FOR SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY: IMPLICATIONS AS A RESEARCH TOOL
• REVERSE TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY AS TREATMENT FOR FIXED ANTERIOR SHOULDER DISLOCATION.