For more than 38 years, Shelbourne Knee Center has been studying patient outcomes and factors related to those outcomes. Now Shelbourne Knee Center has a new tool in its research arsenal: the SKC dashboard.
Many patients with knee osteoarthritis are told that they should live with the pain until it becomes unbearable, and then have total knee arthroplasty (TKA). At Shelbourne Knee Center, these are not the only choices.
Lee Linenberg has known K. Donald Shelbourne, MD, for 45 years and has been working with him for 31 years. Linenberg met Dr. Shelbourne, an orthopedic surgeon at Shelbourne Knee Center, in 1975, when her husband played rugby with him. Ten years later, Linenberg became one his patients. Three years after that, she became his clinical assistant.
A patellar tendon rupture is a disabling injury that prevents the patient from achieving full knee extension. This rare injury, occurring in less than 0.5% of the population annually, has two main causes:
As a patient at Shelbourne Knee Center, Jacob Bailey saw first-hand how research enabled orthopedic surgeon K. Donald Shelbourne, MD, to provide optimal treatment for his torn ACL and meniscus and answer his questions about return to competitive swimming.
Jean Fouts, RN, BSN, has been working with K. Donald Shelbourne, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Shelbourne Knee Center, for 36 years. They met during Fouts’ first job out of nursing school as a surgical nurse at IU Health Methodist Hospital. At that time, Dr. Shelbourne was an orthopedic surgeon at the Methodist Sports Medicine Center.