Dr. Douglas C Burton M..D.
Orthopedist | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
3901 Rainbow Blvd Orthopedic Surgery Kansas City KS, 66160About
Dr. Douglas Burton is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Kansas City, KS. Dr. Burton specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Burton 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
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 1994
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Patient-based outcomes analysis of patients with single torsion thoracolumbar-lumbar scoliosis treated with anterior or posterior instrumentation: an average 5- to 9-year follow-up study.
- Treatment of thoracolumbar burst fractures with variable screw placement or Isola instrumentation and arthrodesis: case series and literature review.
- Refinement of the SRS-22 Health-Related Quality of Life questionnaire Function domain.
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: natural history and long term treatment effects.
- Smith-Petersen osteotomy of the spine.
- Measuring outcomes in spinal deformity.
- Trunk rotational strength asymmetry in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: an observational study.
- The reliability and concurrent validity of the Scoliosis Research Society-22r patient questionnaire compared with the Child Health Questionnaire-CF87 patient questionnaire for adolescent spinal deformity.
- Transverse plane pelvic rotation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: primary or compensatory?
- The prevalence of increased proximal junctional flexion following posterior instrumentation and arthrodesis for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
- Treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with quantified trunk rotational strength training: a pilot study.
- Anterior scoliosis rod migration to the lower extremity.
- The effect of posterior thoracic spine anatomical structures on motion segment flexion stiffness.
- Analysis of instrumentation/fusion survivorship without reoperation after primary posterior multiple anchor instrumentation and arthrodesis for idiopathic scoliosis.
- The effect of starting point placement technique on thoracic transverse process strength: an ex vivo biomechanical study.
Treatments
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Herniated Disc
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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