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Orthopaedic Surgery整形外科学講座
Staffs
- Professor: Yasuyuki Ishibashi
- Associate professor: Kanichiro Wada
- Lecturer: Eiji Sasaki (Community Healthcare Development in Mutsu and Shimokita)
- Lecturer (hospital affiliation): Shusa Ohshika (Rehabilitation Medicine), Gentaro Kumagai, Yuka Kimura
- Assistant professor: Takahiro Tsushima (Community Emergency Medicine), Hiroya Ono, Masayuki Ichinohe, Tatsuro Saruga (Community Emergency Medicine)
- Assistant professor (hospital affiliation): Noriyuki Chiba, Yuki Fujita, Kazuki Ohishi, Ryota Yamauchi, Yoshiro Nitobe (Rehabilitation Medicine), Nana Ichikawa, Shohei Yamauchi
- Research / Teaching Assistant: Kotaro Aburakawa
Treatment of numbness, pain and movement disorders of the upper and lower limbs originating in the spinal cord, spinal deformity such as scoliosis, spinal disorders such as syringiomyelia and spinal tumors
Hand Surgery GroupCongenital hypoplasia, traumas and disorders of the upper and lower limbs. Reconstruction by microsurgery using tissue grafting and distraction osteogenesis of the upper and lower limbs
Joint Surgery GroupAdult joint reconstruction therapy such as osteoarthrosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Metabolic diseases such as osteoporosis. Child joint disorders such as developmental dysplasia of the hip.
Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery GroupPrevention and treatment of disorders and trauma of athletes. Disorders of knee and leg joints.
Musculoskeltal Oncology GroupSurgical treatment and chemotherapy for primary benign and malignant tumors that occurred in the bones and soft tissues. Surgical treatment of metastatic bone and soft tissue tumors.
Trauma and Reconstruction Surgery Group
Treatment of extremity and pelvic trauma. Microsurgical reconstruction of severe extremity trauma with soft tissue defects.
Current Research Topics
Spinal Surgery Group- ・Pathophysiological study to clarify the pathological condition of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL)
- ・Basic medical research on drug therapy for ossification of OPLL
- ・Basic research to develop a simple method for measuring spinal alignment
- ・Basic research and regenerative therapeutic research for spinal cord injury
- ・Large-scale epidemiological study for spinal deformity disorders
- ・Clinical research on congenital anomalies in children
- ・Epidemiological study for osteoarthritis and upper extremity peripheral neuropathy
- ・Artificial join replacement and changes in the bone density of the bone cortex
- ・Development of the new therapeutic method for avascular necrosis of the femoral head
- ・Development and clinical application of an artificial hip joint
- ・Epidemiological study for osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (changes in the bone density of the young)
- ・Biomechanical and molecular biological study of ligament reconstruction
- ・Biomechanical study of cartilage reconstruction
- ・Biomechanics of post knee joint replacement
- ・Study of the pathological condition of instability of the patella
- ・Analysis of risk factors for knee ligament trauma and development of the prevention program
- ・Epidemiology of early knee osteoarthritis
- ・Treatment for primary malignant bone and soft tissue tumors (sarcomas) and metastatic cancers of bone and soft tissue
- ・Clinical outcomes of limb-sparing surgery such as endoprosthetic reconstruction, autogenous recycled bone reconstruction, and in situ preparation.
- ・Application of intraoperative CT navigation system for bone and soft tissue tumors
- ・Study on the prognosis of patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma who underwent unplanned excision
- ・Distinction between benign and malignant soft tissue tumors based on an ultrasonographic evaluation of vascularity and elasticity
- ・Evaluation of stress variation on the morphology after bone resection for bone and soft tissue tumors by finite element analysis
- ・Glucose metabolism imaging in malignant bone and soft tissue tumors using fluorescent glucose derivative