Clinical Observation Orthopedic Case Study

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Clinical Observation Orthopedic As an Athletic Trainer part of the requirements is collaboration with physicians to provide care of patients. Often after an active patient may receive an injury, they must be referred to an orthopedic for further evaluation. The Washburn University Athletic Training department has a contract with Stormont Vail Hospital to send athletes to the Cotton O’Neil Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic. One of the orthopedist Washburn athletes often sees is Dr. Brian Wilson, M.D, an orthopedic surgery specialist with over twelve years of experience. He graduated from the Kansas City school of Medicine in 2005 and completed his general surgery and orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Missouri. In addition to working in the clinic Dr. Wilson often comes to observe games on the sideline. When working in the Cotton O’Neil clinic Dr. Wilson sees a variety of different patients. Some days he may only see middle age and elderly patients for cortisone injections. While on other days he will do evaluations to diagnosis injuries that may require surgery. When Dr. Wilson first meets a patient, he asks them a series of …show more content…
Wilson has the opportunity to see several of his patients from initial evaluation, surgery, to full recovery. This creates a close relationship with his patients and the opportunity to see them improve. One example, of this was a sever motor vehicle accident, Dr. Wilson treated doctor and the two passengers in the accident. The driver had several skin grafts completed before he could be treated by the orthopedic. Dr. Wilson completed arthroscopic rotator cuff repair on the patient, however, the repair did not take. He then had to repeat the surgery this time he instead paced a mesh graft. At his last follow up appointment he had an almost complete full range of motion and only minor pain/ popping with physical therapy. The patient did have an MRI completed at the office to make sure the graft was taken
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