Healing for Today, Hope for the Future
Spanning the decades, orthopaedic specialists from the University of Utah Department of Orthopaedics have traveled to remote regions of the globe to provide life-changing and often life-saving orthopaedic surgery. From Nicaragua to a small clinic in Juarez Mexico, orthopaedic specialists have been making a difference in the lives of thousands of children and adults through multiple medical and teaching missions world-wide.
GLOBAL OPERATIVE EXPERIENCES
By the numbers:
- 4 weeks in a country
- 5 operating days a week
- 3-4 ortho cases a day
- 1-2 “emergent” cases per weekend
Case types:
- nonunions
- chronic dislocations
- chronic osteomyelitis/septic arthritis
- upper and lower extremity fractures
- traction for complex acetabulum
- ex fix for unstable pelvis
ASSOCIATIONS
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Santiago, Chile
- Rwanda
- El Salvador – Operation Walk
- Blanding, Utah
- Guatemala – Faith in Practice
- Uganda
- Ecuador
- Nicaragua
- Mexico – Zacatecas/Guadalupe
- Beijing
- Bhutan
Operation Walk Provides life-changing joint replacement surgeries
Faith In Practice Provides medical care to the poor of Guatemala