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Nyc Orthopaedic Surgeon, Jacob Rozbruch MD announced in New York Magazines Hall of Fame List of Best Doctors in New York City and surrounding areas. The Top ten Doctors who practice with a difference.

New York orthopedic surgeon Jacob Rozbruch is going to give a friend of mine a tendon from a cadaver. The beauty of this third-party approach, called allografting, is the reduction of trauma from surgery- the greater
part of the misery that follows an ACL repair, Rozbruch says, is from the autograft, the removal of a portion of healthy tendon from the patient’s leg. You can be the judge of the creepiness of allografting, but Rozbruch says it cuts recovery time by as much as two-thirds. He expects a patient to feel good in two or three months (better, in fact, than is entirely safe; as autograftee Jerry Rice learned last fall, a repaired ACL and its surrounding components aren’t as strong as they feel) and to be able to play sports with a brace at six months. The brace comes off after the one-year mark. The tendon continues to strengthen for yet another year.

Jacob Rozbruch MD, NYC Orthopedic Surgeon chats about Baby boomers recapturing their youth. It's called "boomeritis," a term coined by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to describe the increasing number of sports-related injuries among baby boomers -- those 76 million people born from 1946 through 1964. They may be training less, but boomers are still actively participating in sports. The result can be strains, sprains, aches, and pains or even more serious injuries to
knees, ankles, and shoulders.

Manhattan Orthopaedic Surgeon Doctor Jacob Rozbruch talk to The New York Times about For many with arthritis, new hips can mean an active life once again. The original hip replacements relied entirely on cement to hold the artificial joint in place. But through the years, pressure on the new joint often caused the cement to crack and the artificial joint to loosen. The younger the patient and the more vigorous the person’s activities, the more quickly the artificial hip was likely to fail. To get around this problem, surgeons devised a new technique in the 1980’s: the cement less joint. Instead of being a smooth, solid piece, the cement less implant has a roughened, porous surface into which bone can grow and hold the new joint in place. Dr. Jacob D. Rozbruch, former chief of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center North in New York, explained, “A special coating on the implant encourages the surrounding bone to grow into the prosthesis, making it an integral part of the body.” Cement less joints are now being used in most younger patients in need of hip replacement, among them Sandy Reynolds of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., who at 35 needed two new hips because of bilateral hip dysplasia, a hip deformity that she was born with, and Phil Bilba of New York City, who at 40 could no longer tie his shoelaces because of chronic inflammatory arthritis in his hip.

Dr Rozbruch, New York Orthopaedic Surgeon discusses his methods of Dealing With Rotator-Cuff Tears - Prevent complications of this common bodybuilding injury. According to Jacob Rozbruch, MD, a sports medicine specialist and chief of orthopedic surgery at New York’s Beth Israel Medical Center North, repeated overhead movements can make the rotator cuff vulnerable to tendon damage or inflammation. “Rotator-cuff injuries do not usually occur suddenly,” explains Rozbruch, “but are the result of chronic, repetitive abuse. The problem can be especially acute in beginners with excessive joint laxity (looseness) or in people with an underlying abnormal shoulder bone anatomy.

Dr Jacob Rozbruch, NY Orthopaedic Surgeon Discusses with HEALTHGATE how to soothe the pain of bursitis and tendinitis. “What’s important to keep in mind is that tendinitis and bursitis are different, although people tend to associate them as one,” says Jacob Rozbruch, M.D.; an orthopedist in private practice in New York City. "What they have in common is that they both cause pain, often in the same areas, like in the rotator cuff of the shoulder. But they are not the same condition.”

NYC Orthopaedic Surgeon, Jacob Rozbruch MD, discusses with the readers of Woman's World Magazine; Is your handbag hurting your health? Is your back and neck sore and stiff-but you don’t remember straining them? Do you get frequent headaches for no particular reason? The culprit could be your shoulder bag! The more we’re on the go, the more goes into our bags--cosmetic cases, books, gym clothes, lunch, cell phones and even laptop computers! Your four smaller shoulder muscles work together with larger muscles to lift your lower arms But when you carry too heavy a handbag they become squeezed, causing tendonitis, which weakens the muscles and may even cause tearing. Hoisting better. Lift a heavy, bag onto your right shoulder with your left hand or vice versa to prevent overtaxing the muscles that rise up the wrist, advises Jacob Rozbruch, M.D. of Beth Israel Medical Center North in New York City. Frequently alternating shoulders will also go a long way toward lessening aches.

Jacob Rozbruch MD, New York City Orthopaedic Surgeon Talks to New York Newsday Sports about Lawrence Taylors injury and condition after surgery. Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, chief orthopedic surgeon at Beth-Israel Medical Center North and a specialist in Achilles tendon surgeries said it’s a good sign that the tear occurred above the heel. “If it’s very close to the bone, the more difficult it is to get a good result,” he said. “If it’s up near the muscle, the better the result.”

Jacob Rozbruch Manhattan Surgeon Who works with star student athletes answering the question When Playing the Game: How Much Is Too Much? Follow your child’s lead. “If you let a child determine his own activity level, it’s never too much,” says Jacob Rozbruch, a New York City orthopedic surgeon who works with student athletes. And playing a variety of sports through middle school is ideal. “Cross training does have a lot of advantages,” says Rozbruch. Kids are especially vulnerable to injury during their pre-adolescent growth spurt, which is roughly between the ages of 9 and 12, and Rozbruch has seen overuse injuries in children as young as 9 or 10. Forget about playing through pain. If playing hurts, a child should take a break.

Jacob Rozbruch MD, Sports medicine specialist & orthopaedic surgeon discusses the latest Jerry Rice injury following his reconstructive knee surgery. Did Rice’s unprecedented 3 1/2 month recovery from reconstructive knee surgery contribute to the latest injury? 49ers Coach Steve Mariucci said the team’s physician told him it didn’t. And Rice echoed that thought. But several orthopedic surgeons who are experts on knee surgery said it most likely did. “If you go back too fast, it does compromise the integrity of the patella,” said Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, former chief of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center-North Division in New York City. “The patella would still be somewhat fragile.”

Lawrence Taylor underwent surgery yesterday to repair his ruptured right Achilles’ tendon. Now he must decide whether, at age 33, he will retire, as he had planned all season, or endure heavy-duty rehabilitation and play pro football again. People close to him are not sure what he will do. Gregg Brent’s is a 41-year-old vice president of a New York consulting company and also a professional platform tennis player. He tore his left Achilles’ tendon in March, and Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, the chief of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center North in New York, operated in April. In July, Brent’s played tennis with 50 percent movement, and in August he returned to platform tennis, with its severe stop-and-go movements. He has Reached the finals of the first two professional tournaments this season. “I have a 10-inch zigzag scar down the back of the leg,” he said. “It looks vicious, but I have no pain and full mobility.”

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, who also is a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said women don’t have as much muscle around their knee joints and therefore their ligaments are less protected. Women’s joints also tend to be more lax, making them more
susceptible to ligament injuries, Rozbruch said. This laxity can be exacerbated by monthly changes in hormones.

Dr Jacob Rozbruch discusses the topic of Preventing Injuries on the Playing Field for Child Athletes. According to New York Orthopaedic Surgeon Jacob D. Rozbruch, M.D., a specialist in athletic trauma and consulting physician for the athletic teams of several New York City schools, the most common injuries of young athletes are: ankle sprains and fractures; finger and wrist sprains and fractures; knee cap bruises and dislocations; collarbone fractures and separations; shoulder sprains and dislocations; cartilage tears of the knee; and back sprains. The best method to determine if your child is prepared for athletic competition is with a pre-season musculoskeletal assessment physical, says Rozbruch. Such physicals are mandatory in professional sports and can be very helpful in prognosticating potential problems before the playing season begins. “These exams enable the physician to ascertain musculoskeletal strengths and weaknesses of each youngster and to determine the presence of any preexisting condition,” says Rozbruch.

As arthritis sufferers, Jim Henion and Barry Cooper know all about pain, pain so excruciating that walking, bending, climbing, and even standing can be intolerable. To relieve the pain, they voluntarily subjected themselves to more. Henion and Cooper recently allowed a doctor to break their shin bones and then insert pins that the patients twisted day by day, widening the break a millimeter at a time. The procedure hemicallotasis - was developed in Europe, and some doctors in this country consider it experimental and risky. Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, former chief of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, said the operation remains relatively unpopular in the United States because more study is needed. “The major disadvantage is there can be some scar tissue that will form inside the knee and limit motion,” Rozbruch said, adding that a risk of joint infection also exists.

Artificial Hip Joints: By anchoring metal to bone more effectively, materials scientists hope to produce an artificial joint that lasts for decades instead of a few years. Nearly half a million patients receive bone implants each year in the US alone. Most of these implants are artificial hip and knee joints made of titanium alloys and attached with bone cement. As new bone grows around an implant a gap tends to appear, so that eventually the implant works loose. As a result, the useful life of an implant may be less than ten years. In the past, orthopaedic specialists have tried to make titanium joints look more like real bone by coating them with hydroxyapatite, the hard, white form of calcium phosphate that gives normal bone its strength. But while such coatings blend well with bone, they remain poorly attached to the implant. “If this method can be shown to create a strong enough bond, it would be a desirable improvement,” says Jacob Rozbruch MD, an implant specialist in New York City.

New Hips for Younger Patients: Hobbled Baby boomers inspired by Bo Jackson's comeback. “Cement less bonding may require a few weeks longer than bonding with cement,” says Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, chief of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center North in New York City. “But once it’s secure, the cement less implant should remain stable for good.”Rozbruch and Crothers do agree that the publicity over Jackson’s return to baseball has prompted dozens of younger patients to ask them about the cement less procedure, which can especially benefit arthritic but sports-minded baby boomers. One of Rozbruch patients, Clyde Worthen of Cliffside Park, N.J., a judo instructor and former national judo champion, was forced to retire from competition at age 38 after developing arthritis in his left hip. For the next 10 years he lived with constant pain and walked with a severe limp, until an exercise partner who’d had both hips replaced suggested that Worthen undergo the procedure too. Worthen had the operation last August and is now pain-free, walking without a limp for the first time in years. “When Bo hit that home run in his first time at bat this year, I felt great,” he says. “I knew if he could come all the way back, so could I.”

Rotator Cuff Tear Sports injury- “Don’t give up on these exercises just yet,” advises Rozbruch. “Rotator cuff problems can be avoided by following a few simple precautions.” Most rotator cuff injuries can be corrected without surgery. Estimates from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicate that 90 percent of patients will respond to simple treatment methods such as refraining from the exacerbating activity, rest, ice, anti-inflammatory medication, and physical therapy. If the condition persists, arthroscopic or open surgery may be required. “With proper rehabilitation, full shoulder function can be restored,” Rozbruch assures.

High School Sports Injuries: A year ago, prior to the start of Dalton’s football season, Dr. Jacob Rozbruch examined the team and found the potential for injury alarming. “They look big,” Dr. Rozbruch said of high school players, “but they’re not necessarily strong.” strong.” Rozbruch figured only 10 percent of the 25 players passed his physical, and among the problems were a torn knee ligament, weak trapezium (shoulder) muscles, a discrepancy in leg length and also a player with scoliosis (improper curvature of the spine). The fitness tests were not solely designed to uncover problems, however. Their purpose also was to assess the physical strengths and weaknesses of each player, so that the correct training could be prescribed during team work-outs. “We adjusted our training program during the year to compensate,” Dalton coach Roy Samuelson said. “This year, coming back, I noticed a remarkable difference.”

A pain in the you-know-what....The piriformis (meaning pear-shaped) muscle is located deep in the buttock. At its widest, it attaches to the flat bone at the base of the spine just above the tailbone. It continues across the buttock and at its narrow point attaches to the head of the thighbone. Its main job is to rotate the hip when you turn your leg outward and up to the side. The most common causes of piriformis problems are hours of prolonged sitting, such as working at a computer or driving long distances; activities that involve twisting or rotating the torso, such as serving a tennis ball; and, as in Levine’s case, trauma caused by a fall onto the buttock. Men who carry a fat wallet in their back pants pocket can also experience the syndrome, which can happen to almost anyone regardless of age, weight, sex, or physical fitness. While more than 2.5 million North American suffer from piriformis syndrome, it remains a little known version of sciatica, and it’s often misdiagnosed and improperly treated. “Most patients suffer pain for months or years before getting the proper diagnosis,” says Dr. Jacob Rozbruch, the New York City orthopedist who did Levine’s surgery. “Patients may be told they have a disk disease in the spine or gynecological problems and undergo costly, unnecessary tests.” Once you know what to look for, the condition is easy to diagnose, either through a simple clinical exam or by using an electronic test that measures the speed of messages transmitted along the sciatic nerve.

Dr. Rozbruch is a specialist in sports-related injuries in New York City. Rozbruch counsels that injuries of this nature should be handled by an orthopaedic specialist not a general practitioner or emergency- room physician. “Not every emergency room physician is orthopaedically trained,” states Dr. Rozbruch. Dr. Rozbruch also cautions those who suffer from Achilles tendinitis “While it is not difficult to diagnose the problem, the suggested treatment is not always accurate.” The worst solution is to inject the tendon with cortisone. “Cortisone shots may reduce inflammation and pain but will ultimately weaken the tendon, making a full rupture more likely to occur,” he advises. “A full rupture in an athletic individual,” Rozbruch believes, “merits surgery. A partial rupture in an athletic or non-athletic patient can be treated with casting. An inflamed Achilles’ tendon should be treated with rest.” According to Dr. Rozbruch, the prognosis for recovery is determined by the type of injury. “If it’s very close to the bone, the more difficult it is to get a good result,” states Rozbruch.