Dr. Robert Scott Meyer M.D.
Orthopedist
3350 La Jollla Village Drive Suite 112d San Diego CA, 92161Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Robert Meyer is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Meyer specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Meyer 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 Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1991
University of Washington School of Medicine 1991
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Personal watercraft injuries: 62 patients admitted to the San Diego County trauma services.
- Outcomes in open tibia fractures: relationship between delay in treatment and infection.
- Evaluation of treadmill exercise in a lower body negative pressure chamber as a countermeasure for weightlessness-induced bone loss: a bed rest study with identical twins.
- The gravity of LBNP exercise: preliminary lessons learned from identical twins in bed for 30 days.
- Space exercise and Earth benefits.
- Supine LBNP exercise maintains exercise capacity in male twins during 30-d bed rest.
- Heritability of bone density: regional and gender differences in monozygotic twins.
- Ambulatory continuous posterior lumbar plexus nerve blocks after hip arthroplasty: a dual-center, randomized, triple-masked, placebo-controlled trial.
- LBNP exercise protects aerobic capacity and sprint speed of female twins during 30 days of bed rest.
- Health-related quality of life after hip arthroplasty with and without an extended-duration continuous posterior lumbar plexus nerve block: a prospective, 1-year follow-up of a randomized, triple-masked, placebo-controlled study.
- Retrospective evaluation of inpatient celecoxib use after total hip and knee arthroplasty at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
- What happens to serum metal ion levels after a metal-on-metal bearing is removed?
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain
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