Brandon Beamer M.D.

04/03/2025

Saving hips, one scope at a time 😎

Corrine Taylor is a young athlete who started in running, and then moved into swimming. While practicing and competing in swimming she started to notice a pa...

04/02/2025

BEAR ACL repair patient crushing it with a speedy recovery

Kameron Conklin started competing in snowboarding when he was about 12 years old. He was having a normal day on the mountain, and suddenly he got tangled up ...

03/15/2025

Did a cool case on a collegiate volleyball player yesterday. After years of jumping and blocking she developed a full thickness cartilage pot hole on her femur under her kneecap with injury to the underlying bone. She wanted the quickest return to play, so osteochondral allograft (given leason size - 2 cm diameter) was the best option. This procedure takes fresh bone and cartilage from a donor that is sized matched to the patient and resurfaces a pothole in the cartilage by taking bone and cartilage from the donor and creating a socket and the patient's knee and plugging the bone and cartilage into their knee and allowing it to heal in. The nice thing about it is that you have good cartilage from the get-go. The trochlea, or groove on the front of the femur, is always hard to treat. You need to select a graft that not only matches the patient's size, but also has a similarly shaped trochlear groove. I'd say this match was perfect 👌

02/18/2025

Talented and kind. That's the reputation I want to be building in my new community 😄

02/18/2025

https://youtu.be/54ysohQcIco?si=txAFIofeXiZCFJCL

01/22/2025

No days off... assessing a nice Australian mom's knee injury on the first day of her trip to Switzerland. Unfortunately, the skier that smashed into her took out her ACL 😢

12/05/2024

Cartilage restoration with MACI (Matrix-induced Autologus Chondrocyte Implantation)

Let me Translate that: cartilage cells from a non-weight bearing part of the knee are biopsied at the time of a knee arthroscopy and the chondrocytes or cartilage cells are grown in cell culture and implanted onto a collagen membrane. There's 500,000 or more cells per cubic centimeter. These are the patients' own cartilage cells, and they are implanted into the cartilage defects to fill in the defect with healthy cartilage.

The first image shows the cartilage defects with some scar tissue in the base of them. The second image shows the cartilage defects cleaned out with the calcified cartilage layer removed, so I'm down to healthy subchondral bone. The foil in the defect is a template for what I will use to cut the graft and size it perfectly for the defect, which is then glued into the defect with fibrin glue. This is basically the same stuff that forms a blood clot in our body at a site of bleeding. The final two images show the healthy graft glued into the defects, and over the course of weeks to months, the defects will fill in with healthy cartilage.

10-year follow-up data on this procedure in the United States reveals 92% of patients are satisfied with the pain relief they experience from this procedure and almost 80% of them return to their athletic level of competition or level of level of recreational activities before they had the cartilage injuries. So overall, a very successful and viable option to fill in cartilage defects

11/23/2024

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11/22/2024

Hanging with and fixing these dudes is more rewarding than you can imagine. 11-0, going into the cat griz game this weekend. Look for your favorite ortho doc on the sidelines keeping the bobcats healthy 💪🤠 Go Bobcats!

11/21/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOQ9tPj63k

09/24/2024

4 part proximal humerus fracture ➡️ reverse total shoulder replacement with repair of the tuberosities. In an older patient, this is a great option for a speedy and predictable recovery, and certainly easy to do from the onset rather than going back after a failed plating...