Toledo Clinic surgeons launch specialized orthopaedic center
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ith our population aging and before coming to The Toledo Clinic. more and more baby boomers He is one of only a few orthopaedic surgeons in the region that are trained reaching retirement age, our nation’s to perform the minimally invasive need for orthopaedic care and serhip arthroscopy procedure. vices has never been higher. To help Hip arthroscopy involves the insermeet this burgeoning demand in our tion of an arthroscope (a thin, flexible, community, Toledo Clinic orthopaelighted scope equipped with a camera) dic surgeons Jason Levine, MD, and through a small incision to examine Kraig Kristof, MD, have combined the inside of the hip joint for their highly specialized disease or abnormalities. If skill sets to form the Glass a problem is noted—for exCity Orthopaedic & Spine ample, damage to the tissue Center. that surrounds the hip socket “This new center will offer the people of Toledo or loose pieces of bone or carand the physicians of the tilage that interfere with the Toledo Clinic a specialized hip’s movement—additional facility that takes care of instruments can then be inboth basic and complex serted to repair the damage, issues affecting the spine, remove the loose body, etc. shoulder, elbow, knee, and “In the past, there was hip,” says Dr. Levine. “Dr. nothing we could do for paDr. Jason Levine Kristof will focus exclutients complaining of hip sively on spine work, and pain other than wait for I’ll perform my specialty the problem to advance to of arthroscopy and sports the point that replacement medicine in addition to was necessary. Now, using seeing patients for other this minimally invasive arorthopaedic complaints.” throscopic procedure, we As the senior segment can halt the progression of of our population expands, damage to the hip and hopeDrs. Levine and Kristof fully eliminate the need for anticipate—and are alreplacement in the future,” ready seeing—a growing Dr. Levine explains. demand for orthopaedic Dr. Levine also works arthroscopically on the shoulder, services such as joint reDr. Kraig Kristof elbow, and knee. Using a placement. The number of hip fractures and other minimally invasive approach traumas is also rising along with the and small incisions, he can do proceaverage age of our population. What’s dures that traditionally require very more, as we get older, it’s natural large incisions to perform. to experience more degenerative Dr. Levine’s first day of clinic at processes in the spine that require the Glass City Orthopaedic & Spine orthopaedic intervention. Center will be January 6, and Dr. Drs. Levine and Kristof have known Kristof has been seeing patients there each other since they were in residency since this past summer. “If you’re together back in the early 2000s, experiencing back pain, joint pain, and both were fellowship trained in or other orthopaedic complaints, highly respected programs known just call our office at 419-479-5424 throughout the country and around and we’ll get you in to be seen right the world for producing exceptionally away,” he says. ❦ skilled surgeons. Dr. Levine completed his fellowship in arthroscopy and Answers to crossword from page 14 sports medicine at the Mississippi C U C U M B E R S O I L Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic I O A D H L E Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and L O W C H A M O M I L E Dr. Kristof (who was featured in A K M C V K the November 2013 issue of Healthy N U T M E G K I E V Living News) earned his spine felT A R C S E A R O L L E D O A T S N D lowship at William Beaumont in O L O L Q U L I D Royal Oak, Michigan. E X C A R R O T S Dr. Levine was at the University C C S E D U N O N of Toledo for six and a half years and H O N E Y V I R O N served as the orthopaedic surgeon O O N E I M P U N for the UT Rockets for seven seasons P O W E R N O S T R U M 1
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The Toledo Clinic is pleased to announce that Dr. Jason Levine will be returning his practice to the Greater Toledo Region January 1, 2014. Dr. Levine is a fellowship trained, board certified, orthopaedic surgeon with over 13 years of orthopaedic experience. He specializes in sports medicine, joint replacement, and trauma. He has joined Dr. Kristof at the new Glass City Orthopaedic & Spine Center, located at the Toledo Clinic Main Campus, 4235 Secor Road, Toledo Ohio.
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