Synopsis
Reach Your Height, gives limb reconstruction specialists as well as their patients access to thought leaders as they discuss best practices for patients undergoing limb lengthening and or reconstruction. Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein, head of Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma at Montreal Childrens Hospital and co-director of the limb deformity unit at Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal interviews highly regarded surgeons around the world. Well also hear from some of their patients. We hope this becomes a valuable knowledge repository of the experiences of surgeons from this very small and highly specialized community. NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics wants to assist limb reconstruction specialists worldwide to solve problems and treat pathologies for their patients in a way that becomes the new standard of care by helping surgeons connect and talk.©2018, NuVasive, Inc. All rights reserved. NuVasive is a registered trademark of NuVasive, Inc. PRECICE is a registered trademark of NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. in the United States and may be registered in other countries. NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics is a trademark of NuVasive.
Episodes
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Episode 9: Part 2 of 2: Host Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Gary Brock, Payton Alix Gray's surgeon.
01/06/2019 Duration: 32minHost Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Gary Brock, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston, Texas about his practice treating pediatric patients, one of whom was Payton Alix Gray, a talented dancer whose leg was lengthened using the PRECICE® intramedullary nail.
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Episode 8: Part 1 of 2: Dancer Payton Alix Gray - The Patient Experience
21/04/2019 Duration: 31minProfile of dancer and actor, Payton Alix Gray and his journey through limb lengthening using the PRECICE® intramedullary lengthening and compression nail. We hear from Payton, his parents, Trina and Terrence Gray, and his surgeon, Dr. Gary Brock, from his practice in Houston, Texas. Payton’s femur was broken in-utero for unknown reasons. Payton and his parents describe their multi-year search for a solution for this athlete, what it was like to dance with a shoe lift, Dr. Brock’s recommendation for surgery, what the procedure and recovery were like and Payton's remarkable return to dance. In Part II, we’ll dive deeper by hearing Dr. Mitchell Bernstein’s conversation with Dr. Gary Brock about Payton’s case.
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Episode 7: Host Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Stuart Green
05/02/2019 Duration: 27minDr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Stuart Green, who was the first American surgeon to visit Dr. G.A. Ilizarov in Kurgan, USSR in 1987 and was instrumental in introducing the Ilizarov method of treating limb length discrepancies, deformities, non-unions and malunions to orthopedic surgeons around the world. In 2009, Dr. Green became involved in what would eventually become a fully implantable intramedullary nail that would lengthen or shorten any long bone by using an external remote controller or ERC powered by magnets. He is co-inventor of the device, called the PRECICE nail, the only externally controlled intramedullary lengthening and compression nail currently available in the United States.
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Episode 6: Limb Lengthening from Patient & Surgeon Perspectives
19/11/2018 Duration: 52minEpisode 6: Patient and Surgeon: Recent college grad and water polo athlete Joeli Reim describes her experience having her leg lengthened with both with an external fixator as well as PRECICE®. Then our host, Dr. Mitchell Bernstein, interviews Joeli's surgeon, fellow Canadian, Dr. Maryse Bouchard of Seattle Children's and the University of Washington.
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Episode 5: Limb Length Discrepancy and guided growth: Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Scott Hoffinger, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Stanford University.
02/10/2018 Duration: 54minHost Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Scott Hoffinger, Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University and Vice Chief of Clinical Operations, Pediatric Orthopaedics at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. Dr. Hoffinger is also part of the bio-design fellowship working with the School of Engineering looking at solutions to commonly encountered problems in the medical workplace.
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Episode 4: Nonunions: Diagnosis and Management in adult limb reconstruction with Dr. Austin Fragomen.
29/06/2018 Duration: 47minHost Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Austin Fragomen, fellowship director at the Hospital for Special Surgery on the limb lengthening and complex reconstruction service and associate professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery, about adult limb reconstruction, specifically non-union and mal-union treatment.
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Episode 3: Adult limb length discrepancy, post-traumatic reconstruction, some considerations and problem areas to avoid with Dr. Robert Rozbruch.
30/05/2018 Duration: 48minHost Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Robert Rozbruch, Chief of the Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service and Director of the Limb Salvage and Amputation Reconstruction Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York about adult limb length discrepancy, post-traumatic reconstruction, some considerations and problem areas to avoid.
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Episode 2: Pre-op planning, imaging and post-op physical therapy with Dr. Scott Nelson.
01/05/2018 Duration: 44minDr. Scott Nelson, Director of the International Limb Lengthening Institute at Loma Linda University, talks with host, Dr. Mitchell Bernstein about advancements in limb reconstruction and leg lengthening including specifics about patient selection, case planning, the types of images needed and the importance of each, physical therapy before and after surgery and surgery preparation.
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Episode 1: Limb Reconstruction for Pediatric Patients
30/03/2018 Duration: 39minIn our first episode, host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein talks with Dr. Christopher Iobst, orthopedic surgeon in Columbus, Ohio, based out of Nationwide Childrens Hospital about limb reconstruction for pediatric patients.