Frederick A Matsen
Orthopedist
University Of Washington Medical Ctr 1959 Ne Pacific St Seattle WA, 98195About
Dr. Frederick Matsen is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Matsen specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Matsen 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
Baylor College of Medicine 1968
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Monitoring for compartmental syndrome using near-infrared spectroscopy: a noninvasive, continuous, transcutaneous monitoring technique.
- Posteroinferior glenoplasty can change glenoid shape and increase the mechanical stability of the shoulder.
- Reexpression of type IIA procollagen by adult articular chondrocytes in osteoarthritic cartilage.
- Self-assessment questionnaires document substantial variability in the clinical expression of rotator cuff tears.
- Simple home program for frozen shoulder to improve patients' assessment of shoulder function and health status.
- The lateral impaction of the shoulder.
- Challenges in evaluating patients lost to follow-up in clinical studies of rotator cuff tears.
- Correlations with patients' perspectives of the result of lower-extremity amputation.
- Do shoulder patients insured by workers' compensation present with worse self-assessed function and health status?
- A prospective, multipractice study of shoulder function and health status in patients with documented rotator cuff tears.
- Outcome of nonoperative management of full-thickness rotator cuff tears.
- Correlates with comfort and function after total shoulder arthroplasty for degenerative joint disease.
- The deep posterior compartmental syndrome of the leg.
- The effect of local cooling on postfracture swelling. A controlled study.
- Observations on retrieved polyethylene glenoid components.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Pain
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