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Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance provides specialized, dynamic care for virtually any orthopedic condition. We partner this professional care with a highly-trained, medical support team and advanced medical technologies, providing you a matrix of care that gets you back to daily activities as quickly as possible. Visit any one of our many locations in East Tennessee to receive the orthopedic care you deserve and the treatment you expect.
Recent Articles
Trigger Finger
Trigger Finger Trigger finger is a really common condition in which the tendon that helps the fingers move, gets caught in a pulley at the base of the finger. So people will actually feel the pain...
Rotator Cuff Tear
A common problem that we see in patients who have shoulder problems is what we call rotator cuff tears. What is a rotator cuff tear? Little tears that develop in the tendons deep down inside our...
ACL Tear and Reconstruction
A patient with an ACL tear generally will have an injury where they'll have either some type of twisting injury or they buckle on the knee, and we'll have a pop and the knee will swell up. And...
Why do I have arm pain?
Many patients visit an orthopedic specialist because of arm pain, often assuming the issue is located in the arm itself. Surprisingly, that isn’t always the case. In many situations, the real source...
Hot Topics: Common Shoulder Injuries
Good morning guys. My name is Dr. Justin Kennon. I'm one of the shoulder and elbow surgeons here at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance here in Knoxville and in Oak Ridge. I appreciate you guys taking...
Mako® – Robotic-Arm Assisted Knee Replacement
We get a lot of questions about what is a robot? What does it do? How does it make you more accurate and more precise in surgery? So, what we wanted to do is go through all this and walk you through...
What is causing my heel pain?
Hi, I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins. I'm an orthopedic surgeon at TOC and I'm foot and ankle trained. So I have a lot of patients that come to my clinic with a lot of heel pain. Sometimes it's hard to...
Success After Shoulder Surgery
Pam Willis lived with pain in her left shoulder for many years. A retired Knoxville realtor, the 68-year-old now works part‐time at a women’s clothing store in Pigeon Forge, where she had trouble...
Covenant Health And Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance Partner With Sevier Co. Schools
Sevier County school officials announced Covenant Health and Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance (TOC) are now the exclusive sports medicine providers to Sevier County student athletes. TOC and Covenant...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Daniel G. Branham, M.D, a highly experienced hand surgeon at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, explains what carpal tunnel syndrome is.
MACI
MACI stands for Matrix Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation, and it’s a big fancy term for just means taking cells out of your knee joint and we can basically expand those into millions of cells to put them back in the knee to take care of a defect of the cartilage.
Who Is A Good Candidate for Spinal Injections?
So typically patients that undergo injections are ones that have been dealing with back or leg pain, neck or arm pain for at least six to eight weeks.