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Multidisciplinary team supports patients at greater risk of fragility fractures
Roughly 44 million Americans have low bone density, placing them at an increased risk for broken bones. These individuals often experience fragility fractures, the result of a fall from standing height or less.
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UC Davis Health opens new center focused on musculoskeletal research
UC Davis Health officially opened its new Oak Park Lawrence J. Ellison Musculoskeletal Research Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6. The new facility provides laboratories where faculty, residents, fellows, medical students, graduate and undergraduate students and visiting scholars can conduct broad interdisciplinary research in musculoskeletal tissue and cellular biomechanics, regeneration and repair.
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Innovation through leading edge research
UC Davis Health’s orthopaedic surgeons, musculoskeletal focused physicians, as well as mechanistic scientists are a driving force in research to address patient needs and provide practical solutions for care improvements. Learn about their research interests.
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UC Davis Health receives AMSN PRISM Award® for exemplary practice
The Orthopaedic/Trauma Unit at UC Davis Health has received the AMSN PRISM Award®, an honor recognizing exceptional nursing practice, leadership, and outcomes in hospital medical-surgical units. This recognition marked UC Davis Health's eighth AMSN PRISM Award®, which is tied for the most earned by any institution
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UC Davis Health orthopaedics first in region to offer weight-bearing CT scan technology
The UC Davis Health Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Sports, and Foot & Ankle Clinic now has the first weight-bearing CT scan machine in the Northern California region, offering providers improved insight about injuries.
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UC Davis awarded prestigious NIH grant to train scientists in musculoskeletal research
The Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering recently received the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 training program grant.
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First-ever genetic map to identify causes of sarcoma
New research published in the journal of Science unlocks the genetic mystery of why some people develop sarcoma.
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A new hip for a patient with rare neuromuscular condition
For the first time, a patient with spinal muscular atrophy has successfully received a hip replacement
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UC Davis develops engineered bone marrow to study early osteosarcoma progression
Researchers test interactions of macrophages with bone cancer cells in a new 3D bone marrow model.
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UC Davis Health opens new Healthy Aging Clinic (video)
UC Davis Health today officially opened its new Healthy Aging Clinic in midtown Sacramento. This one-stop clinic serves patients 65 and older and their caregivers.
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An update: UC Davis Orthopaedics
Year 3 Annual State of the Department, Presented October 12, 2021 by R. Lor Randall, M.D., F.A.C.S
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Sacramento's First Free-Standing Physical Rehabilitation Hospital
UC Davis Health, in partnership with Kindred Healthcare, broke ground on a planned rehabilitation hospital on its Sacramento campus. The project is the first free-standing physical rehabilitation hospital in Sacramento and is expected to open in 2023.