Our practice offers surgical treatments for the correction of upper and lower limb deformities, length discrepancies, and injuries in adults and children. We help individuals with orthopaedic problems due to trauma, birth defects, infections or bone tumors. Our surgeons use the best tools available today including Precice® motorized magnetic lengthening and compression nails, automated hexapod external fixation, osseointegration limb reconstruction, patient specific anatomic plating, and more. These tools are combined with our surgeons’ expert surgical techniques to achieve the optimal results patients desire.
We perform arm and leg lengthening, limb malalignment correction, repair of bone non-unions, and treat hip, knee and ankle arthritis with distraction, fusion, or replacement. Along with limb length discrepancy, we correct genu valgum, commonly known as knock knee, and genu varum, or bowleg. Our surgeons are experts at both limb salvage and amputation reconstruction. Whether patients are suffering from arthritis, genetic deformity, bone tumors, or the effects of a traumatic accident, the Limb Lengthening & Complex Reconstruction Service of Hospital for Special Surgery is ready to get them on the road to recovery and an improved quality of life.
Limb Lengthening Conditions We Treat
We treat many conditions and deformities, including the following:
Watch, Read, Learn
Dr. Rozbruch named a specialist making change
Digital Journal declares “S. Robert Rozbruch, MD brings rare expertise to limb lengthening and reconstruction” in list of change makers.
Miserable Malalignment Recovery
HSS featured Dr. Rozbruch’s patient, Abby, in the “Back in the Game” series. Dr. Rozbruch performed an osteotomy on both her legs.
Dr. Rozbruch named to elite list of 15 surgeons
Dr. Rozbruch named to list of orthopedic surgeons who “are helping shape the future of musculoskeletal care…and…advancing the field.”
Watch interview with Dan, osseointegration patient.
Dan, a professional musician, describes his year long journey to better mobility through osseointegration with Dr. Rozbruch.
Limb Lengthening team publishes second edition of their world renown Case Atlas featuring almost 500 clinical cases:
Jason is 9 months post #amputation and Osseointegration Limb Replacement Surgery #osseointegration for a post trauma painful and chronic dysfunctional limb #hssllcrs #hsslimblengthening #srobertrozbruchmd @hspecialsurgery @limblengtheningreconstruction
I was very fortunate to be able to present on #osseointegration in #china earlier this year. I made friends there and with Dr Adam Zhu 朱亚当 we wrote the first article in Chinese on this topic of osseointegration for #amputation
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Norman a physician from Arizona had #hightibialosteotomy to correct his #bowlegs This has improved his knee pain, body image, biomechanics, and prospects for healthy knees into the future. #hssllcrs #hsslimblengthening #srobertrozbruchmd @hspecialsurgery @limblengtheningreconstruction
Mr M had a prior right transfemoral #amputation to manage total knee arthroplasty infection. He struggled with mobility and pain. Soon after getting #osseointegration with @osseointernational OPL using @ottobockcare_northamerica @ottobock @ottobock_northamerica genium x3 provided by @hkafedzic he is so much more active!
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Vinoth with #dysplasia #bowleg #leglengthdiscrepancy had double osteotomy to get straight and symmetrical! #hssllcrs #hsslimblengthening @hspecialsurgery @limblengtheningreconstruction
Mr R has long managed #hiv , with associated neuropathy. A prior fracture would not heal and his ankle developed increasing deformity and skin ulceration. He opted for simultaneous #amputation with #osseointegration with @osseointernational OPL with my partner Dr Rozbruch, and now walks excellently thanks to PT help from @waikwong_dpt and prosthesis care from @hkafedzic using a @proteorusa Rush Rogue foot! His skin does look unusual, but has not needed further surgical care. Here is how he describes his experience:
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