Dr. Bryce Johnson M.D.

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Get to know Orthopedist Dr. Bryce Johnson, who serves the population of Laguna Woods, California. Bryce Johnson, MD, is an Orthopedist at South County Orthopedic Specialists, and is affiliated with Mission Hospital and the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Bryce Johnson is a highly experienced orthopedist, having been in practice for more than 17 years. His medical career started in 2000, when he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. An internship and then residency followed at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, before he completed a fellowship at the University of California San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Johnson is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and provides both surgical and non-surgical treatments for a wide range of conditions. Conditions treated by him include chronic neck, back and pelvic pain, rotator cuff injuries, anterior cruciate ligament injuries, and osteoarthritis. He is also renowned as an expert in spine surgery and in the treatment of sports injuries. Dr. Johnson is noted not only for his excellence as an orthopedic surgeon, but also for his use of the latest technology and as an expert in the use of minimally invasive orthopedic surgery, helping to speed up typical recovery times. Orthopaedic surgeons are devoted to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the bones, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles. Some orthopaedists are generalists, while others specialize in certain areas of the body, others specialty focuses include shoulder and elbow, hand, and spine. Orthopaedic surgeons treat broken bones, and replace painful joints, and also treat patients for sports injuries, back pain, ruptured discs and spinal stenosis, bone tumors, carpal tunnel, hand arthritis and hand injuries, club foot, bow legs and hip dysplasia, orthopaedic trauma, limb lengthening, achilles tendon injuries, bunions and foot and ankle injuries, osteoporosis, and arthritis.

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