HSS Studies Highlight Advantages of Osseointegration for People with an Amputation

Three new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) highlight the use and advantages of osseointegration (OI) for ...
News-Medical.Net

Studies highlight benefits of osseointegration for patients with limb amputations

Three new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) highlight the use and advantages of osseointegration (OI) for ...
Becker's Spine Review

HSS challenges osseointegration norms with 3 new studies

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery presented three 2024-2025 studies on osseointegration outcomes in patients with limb amputations at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2026 ...
KGW8

Groundbreaking osseointegration surgery, performed for first time in Pacific Northwest, allows patient with double amputation to walk again

PORTLAND, Ore. — A surgeon in Oregon completed the first osseointegration surgery in the Pacific Northwest, which medical experts call a pioneering procedure that marks a significant milestone in the ...
La Grande Observer

Losing a leg, gaining a life: Four amputation surgeries on Ruth Frieboes’ right leg failed, but the fifth, she says, ‘gave me my life back’

But then, just a few weeks after a prosthetist in Boise suggested that Frieboes consider a fifth amputation, she learned that a Portland-area surgeon, Dr. Stephen Wallace of Summit Orthopaedics, was ...
EurekAlert!

New program at UT Health San Antonio delivers breakthrough care for limb loss patients

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 13, 2025 – UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio), proudly announces the launch of the Limb Optimization Program ...
KING5

Groundbreaking surgery, performed for first time in Pacific Northwest, allows patient with double amputation to walk again

PORTLAND, Ore. — A surgeon in Oregon completed the first osseointegration surgery in the Pacific Northwest, which medical experts call a pioneering procedure that marks a significant milestone in the ...
East Oregonian

Losing a leg, gaining a life: Four amputation surgeries on Ruth Frieboes’ right leg failed, but the fifth, she says, ‘gave me my life back’

But then, just a few weeks after a prosthetist in Boise suggested Frieboes consider a fifth amputation, she learned a Portland-area surgeon, Dr. Stephen Wallace of Summit Orthopaedics, was looking for ...