Making people whole again

For more than 35 years, the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has conducted the most advanced patient care, medical instruction, and research - all with the goal of helping more people regain function and lead more active and fulfilling lives.

Today, musculoskeletal research is at the precipice of major breakthroughs that likely will change and simplify the way bone and joint disorders are treated and prevented throughout the world.

The Department of Orthopaedics is at the vanguard of these studies, developing joint replacements that last a lifetime; relieving back pain and sciatica; refining microsurgery for reattaching hand and finger amputations; perfecting methods of replacing bone destroyed by cancer, and preventing arthritis and osteoporosis, to name a few examples.