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…
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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.
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.
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.
Five spine surgeries left this patient in constant pain. Here's how UVA Health surgeons used innovative techniques to finally deliver relief.
See the impact we're making by participating in a study for ApiFix, a ratcheting, nonfusion device for growth modulation in pediatric scoliosis.
UVA Health orthopedic surgeon Mark Miller, MD, is renowned for developing 2 surgical approaches using bone dowels that can treat osteolysis.