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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
Who Should You Call When You Have Back Pain?
Drs. Lavelle and Yoakum, both non-operative Spine Specialists, are an integral part of TOC Spine’s team.
Randall Robbins Reverse Shoulder
Some patients are good candidates for Reverse Shoulder Surgery. Title: Dr. Randall Robbins explains Reverse Shoulder surgery.
Total Joint Replacement: Is It Right For You?
If it’s time for a total joint replacement, there’s good reason not to wait.
Follow Through
Cozadds keep moving with help from Fort Sanders Regional How do you respond when your orthopedic surgeon guesses that you’re not very good at golf? Phil Cozadd, 75, took that diagnosis in stride,...
A Different Approach to Healing Back Pain
Desensitizing pain neurons decreases back pain. Dr. John Lavelle explains how it works.
Hips to Hoops
Kendrick Tate picks up a basketball, slowly dribbles his way to the far side of the court just beyond the three-point circle. In one smooth, arching flick of the wrist, the ball strips the net. Whoosh!
Net Results: Hip Replacement Gets Tennis Player Back Into The Game
He discovered tennis in its golden years, back when Ilie Nastase, Vitas Gerulaitis and Bjorn Borg ruled the men’s courts. But almost four decades later, Kevin Simpson’s game was suffering. “For the...
Body Mechanics
Retired auto technician gets new knee, same-day service Rodney Loveland began tinkering with cars almost a half century ago, a time when cars still had carburetors, foot-operated dimmer switches and...
A Cut Above
Stylist happy to be back at work after shoulder replacement at Parkwest The sound of a blow-dryer fills a busy Sevierville salon. Paula Rawson raises her arm high over a customer’s head and tilts...
Testimonial From Patient Anne Rackley
June 10, 2015 I’m writing to you today because of an experience I had here at Parkwest. On Sunday, May 31, 2015, I was trying to stop a fight between my cats when I was bitten on my hand by one of...
Mauled No More
Vols’ Retired Rugby Coach Back In The Game Mulligrubbers, scrums, rucks and mauls. Butch Robertson knows ’em all. But this is no unsavory cast of characters – they are terms used in rugby, a sport...
On The Road Again
Hip Fracture Doesn’t Stop Knoxville Runner It was no fractured fairy tale – the truth hurt all the way to Teresa Williams’ bone. But when the Knoxville runner broke her right hip during warm-ups...