Clinic of Orthopaedic Medicine

Orthopaedic medicine is a field in medicine devoted to the evaluation, diagnosis and non-operative treatment of painful musculoskeletal problems.

At the Orléans Clinic of Orthopaedic Medicine we are involved in the non-surgical management of problems affecting all the joints in the body and the whole spine (neck, thoracic and low back).

 With the treatment modalities we use at the clinic, we have an excellent success rate in managing persistent and recurring pain problems, such as: 

• Osteoarthritis  
• Spine: Neck pain, Mid back pain, Low back pain
• After spine surgery: persisting neck pain, persisting low back pain
• Headaches
• Jaw pain (Temporomandibular joint)
• Joints of upper extremities: pain involving the shoulders, the elbows, the hands & wrists.
• Joints of lower extremities: Hips pain, Knees pain, Ankles & feet pain.

 The modalities of treatment used at the Orléans Clinic of Orthopaedic Medicine vary depending on the problem.

These include:

1. Manipulations
2. Therapeutic exercises
3. Myofascial techniques
4. Different types of injections including:

• Trigger point injections
• corticosteroid injections (bursa, tendons, all the joints)
• ligament tightening injections (referred to as Prolotherapy, Proliferant injections, Sclerotherapy or Non-surgical reconstruction therapy)
• PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma Injections
• nerve blocks
• neural therapy
• epidural injections
• injections under ultrasound guidance