Whether you are an active athlete or someone experiencing chronic joint pain due to osteoarthritis, our Orthopaedic specialists are here to help you improve your physical condition. Our goal is to decrease your pain and improve your overall range of motion. Education, strengthening exercises, reduction of stress on joints, anti-inflammatory medications, and surgery are all tools available to help improve your condition. If you are living with chronic pain or arthritis, call for a consultation 631-298-4579.
- Joint Replacement Surgery
- Fractures and Sprains
- Sports Related Injuries
- Arthroscopic Surgery
Fred M. Carter II, MD
Diplomate, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
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"I am singing the praises of Dr. Carter to everyone who will listen. After rotator cuff surgery, I am horseback riding and enjoying my leisure time again."
Pat Sulahian,
Shelter Island
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Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic, and overuse injuries and other disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons address most musculoskeletal ailments including arthritis, trauma and congenital deformities using both surgical and non-surgical means. According to applications for board certification from 1999 to 2003, the top 25 most common procedures (in order) performed by orthopaedic surgeons are as follows:
- Knee arthroscopy and meniscectomy
- Shoulder arthroscopy and decompression
- Carpal tunnel release
- Knee arthroscopy and chondroplasty
- Removal of support implant
- Knee arthroscopy and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Knee replacement
- Repair of femoral neck fracture
- Repair of trochanteric fracture
- Debridement of skin/muscle/bone/fracture
- Knee arthroscopy repair of both menisci
- Hip replacement
- Shoulder arthroscopy/distal clavicle excision
- Repair of rotator cuff tendon
- Repair fracture of radius (bone)/ulna
- Laminectomy
- Repair of ankle fracture (bimalleolar type)
- Shoulder arthroscopy and débridement
- Lumbar spinal fusion
- Repair fracture of the distal part of radius
- Low back intervertebral disc surgery
- Incise finger tendon sheath
- Repair of ankle fracture (fibula)
- Repair of femoral shaft fracture
- Repair of trochanteric fracture