Dr. James R Ficke MD
Orthopedist | Foot and Ankle Surgery
3851 Roger Brooke Dr San Antonio TX, 78234About
Dr. James Ficke is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Ficke specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Ficke tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1987
Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences,Bethesda, Md, United States 1987
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neural fibrolipoma of the foot.
- The scope of wounds encountered in casualties from the global war on terrorism: from the battlefield to the tertiary treatment facility.
- Introduction. Extremity War Injuries: development of clinical treatment principles.
- Extremity War Injuries: Development of Clinical Treatment Principles.
- From Iraq back to Iraq: modern combat orthopaedic care.
- Introduction. Extremity war injuries: challenges in definitive reconstruction.
- Extremity war injuries: challenges in definitive reconstruction.
- Resource utilization and disability outcome assessment of combat casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
- Return to duty rate of amputee soldiers in the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Preface. Traumatic foot and ankle injuries related to recent international conflicts.
- The mangled foot and leg: salvage versus amputation.
- Outcomes of internal fixation in a combat environment.
- Posterior thigh abscess as a complication of continuous popliteal nerve catheter.
- Popliteal artery repair in massively transfused military trauma casualties: a pursuit to save life and limb.
- Extremity war injuries V: barriers to return of function and duty.
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