In his work as a UVA Health orthopedic surgeon and researcher, Brian Werner, MD, says his biggest passion is "making patients better." "I love watching them recover from surgery and get back to their regular lives and what they love doing," he explains. To that end, Werner's research focuses on…
Category: Ortho Excellence
The Fragility Fracture and Bone Health Clinic at UVA Health establishes a pathway for patients at risk for devastating fractures.
Learn how our orthopedic surgeons treat these injuries, which are on the rise in young athletes.
Performing more than 700 surgeries to date, UVA Health serves as a model for realizing the benefits of outpatient joint replacements.
Ankle replacement can help maintain motion even for patients with severe deformities, due to improved implant technology and surgical techniques.
Xudong Joshua Li, MD's, research could greatly reduce pain and offer a more accessible treatment for spinal disc herniation. Watch his video.
UVA Health offers a new technique that preserves nerve endings to help drive upper extremity prosthetics, giving patients more intuitive functional control over a myoelectric prosthetic.
The new low-metal device allows for better tumor surveillance and more accurate post-surgical radiation therapy.
Charles R. Farber focuses on finding the genes that lead to complex diseases and uses a systems approach to uncover the basis of bone strength.
Learn why the FDA-approved medial implantable shock absorber may become the gold standard for mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis.