Dr. David Lee Skaggs MD
Orthopedist
4650 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles CA, 90027Rating
5/5
About
Dr. David Skaggs is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Skaggs specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Skaggs 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1989
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1989
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lengthening of pediatric forearm deformities using the Ilizarov technique: functional and cosmetic results.
- The posterior fat pad sign in association with occult fracture of the elbow in children.
- Evaluation of the acutely limping child.
- Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica of the acetabulum. A report of two cases.
- Unilateral absence of the clavicle with rapidly progressive scoliosis in an 8-year-old.
- Respiratory failure in postpneumonectomy syndrome complicated by thoracic lordoscoliosis: treatment with prosthetic implants, partial vertebrectomies, and spinal fusion.
- The effect of femoral rotation on the projected femoral neck-shaft angle.
- Reliability of a modified Gartland classification of supracondylar humerus fractures.
- Elbow aspiration and arthrogram: an alternative method.
- Increased body weight and decreased radial cross-sectional dimensions in girls with forearm fractures.
- Referrals from scoliosis screenings.
- Prediction of postoperative gait velocity in cerebral palsy.
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip from six months to four years of age.
- Bilateral hip dislocations in a father and son with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
- Growth arrest of the distal radius following a metaphyseal fracture: case report and review of the literature.
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Treatments
- Cerebral Palsy
- Back Pain
- Scoliosis
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Femur Fracture
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