Dr. Darrel Scott Brodke MD
Orthopedist | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
590 WAKARA WAY SALT LAKE CITY UT, 84108Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Darrel Brodke is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Brodke specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Brodke 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
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1989
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spinal cage retrieval and assessment of biologic response.
- Epidural injections for the treatment of symptomatic lumbar herniated discs.
- Anterior thoracolumbar instrumentation: stiffness and load sharing characteristics of plate and rod systems.
- Segmental pedicle screw fixation or cross-links in multilevel lumbar constructs. a biomechanical analysis.
- Fusionless scoliosis correction using a shape memory alloy staple in the anterior thoracic spine of the immature goat.
- Measuring contact area, force, and pressure for bioengineering applications: using Fuji Film and TekScan systems.
- Biomechanical analysis of a new concept: an add-on dynamic extension plate for adjacent-level anterior cervical fusion.
- Three-dimensional analysis of 2 fusionless scoliosis treatments: a flexible ligament tether versus a rigid-shape memory alloy staple.
- Mechanical modulation of vertebral growth in the fusionless treatment of progressive scoliosis in an experimental model.
- Creation of an experimental idiopathic-type scoliosis in an immature goat model using a flexible posterior asymmetric tether.
- The cervical end of an occipitocervical fusion: a biomechanical evaluation of 3 constructs. Laboratory investigation.
- The timing and influence of MRI on the management of patients with cervical facet dislocations remains highly variable: a survey of members of the Spine Trauma Study Group.
- Spinopelvic parameters in postfusion flatback deformity patients.
- Local and global subaxial cervical spine biomechanics after single-level fusion or cervical arthroplasty.
- Traumatic burst fracture in a patient with a lumbar artificial disc.
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