Dr. Frank P. Castro MD
Orthopedist
1919 State St Suite 104 New Albany IN, 47150Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Frank Castro is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in New Albany, IN. Dr. Castro specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Castro 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
Stanford University School of Medicine 1993
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fever following total knee arthroplasty.
- Differences in age, laterality, and Steinberg stage at initial presentation in patients with steroid-induced, alcohol-induced, and idiopathic femoral head osteonecrosis.
- Core decompression and conservative treatment for avascular necrosis of the femoral head: a meta-analysis.
- Anterior fusion for idiopathic scoliosis.
- Epidemiological perspective on prophylactic pinning in patients with unilateral slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
- A cost analysis of two anterior cervical fusion procedures.
- Selection of fusion levels in scoliosis surgery.
- Stingers, cervical cord neurapraxia, and stenosis.
- The efficacy of anterior spine exposure by an orthopedic surgeon.
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, bracing, and the Hueter-Volkmann principle.
- Effect of experimental variables on the inertization of galvanic sludges in
- Role of the mixing conditions and composition of galvanic sludges on the
- Role of activated growth factors in lumbar spinal fusions.
- Degenerative conditions of the lumbar spine treated with intervertebral titanium cages and posterior instrumentation for circumferential fusion.
Treatments
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neuropathy
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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