Tiffany's Story
After a successful joint replacement procedure, Tiffany was home recovering the same day.
Orthopedics
Get expert care and relief for pain in your bones, ligaments, muscles or joints.
Get expert care and relief for pain in your bones, ligaments, muscles or joints.
Since 1895, we’ve remained focused on our commitment to provide you and your family with the best healthcare and personal service. Though we regularly receive national recognition for high-quality standards of care, our true honor is serving you. Our awards and recognition are proof of our tireless efforts to improve the lives of our neighbors in Southern Ohio.
Adena Orthopedic and Spine Institute has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Advanced Total Hip and Knee Replacement Certification by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care.
When something hurts in your bones, ligaments, muscles or joints, you need more than just a surgeon.
Adena Orthopedic and Spine Institute offers a multidisciplinary team of experts who work together to help you feel better. Here, you’ll have access to sports medicine physicians, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, spine specialists and neurologists. The Adena orthopedics team has the experience and technology to help patients of all ages relieve pain, build strength and regain motion and stability.
We follow a conservative approach to care, which means we will work through the least invasive treatments and therapies in the hopes that surgery isn’t necessary. If surgery is the only option, our orthopedic surgeons offer leading-edge care using the latest technology and minimally invasive techniques to help you heal faster and get back to an active life sooner.
Our orthopedic center was built with you in mind. It offers the latest technology and a coordinated care approach to treat your pain. This means that on the day of your appointment, you can be seen by more than one doctor if needed and may be able to have all your tests done that same day (depending on your insurance coverage). When you leave, you will have a diagnosis and treatment plan designed to restore function and comfort.
If you have a more complicated issue, the entire team will determine a treatment plan that will result in the best outcome possible. This may mean that more than one day is needed for testing, consultation and thoughtful consideration of the best options to treat your problem successfully. This may include consultation with a surgeon.
You don't need to let an injury or illness sideline you.
Our team of experts cover a wide range of conditions for bones, muscles, joints, and tendons.
Advanced surgical and nonsurgical treatment options, onsite access to diagnostics, and a team of patient navigators to help you find your way, provide you with access to the customized care you need and get you back to whatever it is you love doing the most.
Many injuries can be treated without surgery, including joint conditions and herniated discs. Our team will do everything possible to help your experience relief without surgery. This may include:
Found to be highly effective, Platelet-rich plasma, or PRP therapy is an application of orthobiologics that uses healthy cells to treat damaged or diseased cells in the body. For many patients, PRP can be used in the treatment of common tissue injuries, such as rotator cuff tears, Achilles tendon ruptures, tendinitis, muscle injuries, arthritis-related pain, and joint injuries. With PRP, platelets are drawn from the patient and “super charged” through a centrifuge. They are then injected into that patient’s damaged tissue to aid healing and re-growth.
The treatments take place in the exam room, and are applied through an injection. The entire process takes only 30-45 minutes. Some conditions may require several injections to help heal the damaged tissue. Currently, patients with abnormal platelet function or a low platelet count, anemia, cancer or an infection cannot receive PRP therapy.
Another orthobiologic procedure being used at Adena involves harvesting stem cells, that are found throughout our bodies, for the treatment of osteoarthritis. This therapy uses a mix of bone marrow and fluid from a patient’s hip to supply the healthy stem cells. Once extracted, the healthy cells are processed and injected into the arthritic area of qualifying patients. Stem cells can divide and duplicate themselves, helping to regenerate healthy tissue in impacted areas.
Stem cell therapy takes about an hour, and is an in-office procedure. There are few to no side-effects, and the treatment is having positive results for patients.
Surgery for bone and joint problems is always a last resort, but sometimes it’s your best option. Our surgeons are at the top of their field and represent the largest group of fellowship-trained physicians in the region. They are experts in various surgical techniques, including minimally invasive surgery — with a focus on reducing pain, shortening recovery and helping you to normal activity safely.
Our orthopedic surgeons perform over 600 total knee, hip and shoulder replacements each year, with an average hospital stay of less than 48 hours. They also perform thousands of other procedures, with hospital stays as short as just one day.
Our 20-bed Inpatient Orthopedic Unit was designed with your comfort and healing in mind. We offer private rooms with private bathrooms, stand-up showers and handrails throughout the floor to help with movement and recovery. Our orthopedic physical therapists and occupational therapists want to get you up and moving, so they visit your room daily and schedule rehabilitation as soon as possible for the best possible outcomes.
Adena is at the forefront of orthopedic surgeries, including surgery through tiny incisions and minimally invasive surgeries to help you recover faster with less pain.
During a joint replacement surgery, a joint is removed and replaced with an artificial joint, made of metal or ceramic material. This procedure, followed by rehab therapy, can restore movement in the joint without pain.
If you need a joint replacement, Adena is here for you every step of the way. We provide a patient navigator to guide you through the entire process. They will help you with scheduling appointments and answering all of your questions – from billing and insurance questions to understanding your individual treatment plan.
We also offer virtual joint replacement class to help you understand what to expect throughout your joint replacement journey. You’ll meet some of the members of our joint replacement team, and they’ll answer any questions you have about joint replacement surgery.
An elbow injury can limit your range of motion, but it can also impact your quality of life. If you are having elbow pain, our orthopedic joint specialists can help. We’ll work with you to find the best way to relieve your pain so you can return to a life in motion.
From casts and physical therapy to elbow joint replacement (also called arthroplasty), our joint team has your elbows covered.
When hand or wrist pain make it tough to do the things you need to do, our orthopedic experts can help. We offer a variety of advanced, minimally invasive treatment options for people with hand and wrist injuries or pain, including:
You can’t keep up with your loved ones with hip pain. The hip specialists at Adena are here to help with hip and pelvic care to get you back to your old self again. We offer:
Our surgeons perform anterior hip replacements. That means they make a small incision through the front of the leg, rather than the back. This can result in less pain and a faster recovery.
Your knees were made to support you and carry you forward. When your knees hurt, you can depend on the orthopedic experts at Adena to find the source of your pain and offer solutions to get you moving again.
Our knee specialists offer:
You carry the world on your shoulders, but shoulder pain can keep you from lifting and reaching to do the things you need to do. If you are experiencing pain in your shoulder, we can help.
Our orthopedic team offers:
Our skilled orthopedics team treats a variety of pain-related conditions, including:
After a successful joint replacement procedure, Tiffany was home recovering the same day.
As a former firefighter, there is nothing Sam Harris enjoys more than fishing with his friends in the local community of first responders.
Dr. Gabis was still feeling pain less than two years after receiving a knee replacement. He knew from his own experience that this was unusual.
There didn’t look to be many options for 51-year old Pike County resident Holly Doll as she struggled every day with severe hip pain.