At Detroit Receiving Hospital, we offer the very best care for orthopaedic injuries. As the only hospital in Southeast Michigan with three Fellowship-trained orthopaedic traumatologists, we can provide our patients with the highest level of care from one of the region’s most experienced teams.

Detroit Receiving’s orthopaedic team offers definitive treatment for all complex and simple orthopaedic injuries and conditions. We treat injuries of the spinal cord/column, pelvis and acetabulum, as well as complex sports and ligament injuries. Our team also has expertise in late reconstruction for fractured nonunions, treatment of foot and ankle problems and joint reconstruction.

As part of the Detroit Medical Center, we are affiliated with the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM).  RIM’s specialized physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians consult on our patients to ensure the best rehabilitation programs for functional recovery.  RIM offers a beautiful state-of-the-art rehabilitation center, on the main campus of the Detroit Medical Center, as well as several outpatient centers throughout Metro Detroit, to support maximal recovery of each patient we treat.

Regardless of your condition or surgery, we work closely with the entire patient care community to ensure that all of your needs are met before, during, and after your operation.  At Detroit Receiving Hospital, we pride ourselves on great patient care!

Detroit Receiving’s orthopaedic team has expertise in the treatment of:

Complex polytrauma

All fractures, including spine and spinal cord injuries

Tumors of the pelvis and spine

Foot and Ankle conditions

Spine conditions

Sports injuries

Joint replacements

To learn more about Receiving’s orthopaedic expertise, please call (313) 745-4230.

Experts in Spine Surgery

Detroit Receiving offers clinical expertise in many different spine procedures and surgeries, from initial diagnosis to treatment and recovery.  We understand that for many of our patients, spinal injuries or disorders can result in limited mobility and chronic pain. Our team works to treat debilitating conditions of the spine, to help our patients maximize their quality of life. 

Our dedicated orthopaedic team has expertise in the following diagnoses

• Adult deformity of the spine
• Back pain
• Cervical and lumbar degenerative disc disease
• Disc herniation
• Facet Disease
• Kyphosis
• Myelopathy of lumbar, cervical and thoracic spine
• Neck pain
• Osteoporotic fractures
• Sciatica
• Scoliosis
• Spinal stenosis – cervical and lumbar
• Spine fractures and Spinal cord injury
• Spondylolisthesis – includes anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis
• Tumors of the spine – cancerous and benign

Prior to recommendation of surgery, our team considers conservative, non-surgical or minimally invasive solutions.  We provide various outpatient procedures, as appropriate, including epidural injections, facet blocks, facet injections, discograms (diagnostic procedure to determine disc disease), and kyphoplasty surgery (very minimally invasive procedure to restore height and treat pain in fractured vertebral bodies).

If surgery offers the best opportunity for recovery, our experienced team can provide personalized and expert care.  As Michigan’s first Level I Trauma Center, Detroit Receiving Hospital features some of the most highly qualified surgeons in the nation, including Receiving’s chief of orthopaedics, Dr. Rahul Vaidya.  Dr. Vaidya has expertise in spine surgery and also has experience in spinal cord research.

Dr. Vaidya leads Detroit Receiving’s spine surgery program.  Supported by an experienced surgical team, he performs many surgical procedures after initial diagnosis, including:

• Lumbar laminectomy/discectomy
• Cervical fusion (anterior and posterior)
• Lumbar fusion (posterior, and front/back surgery, also called a “360 degree” surgery)
• Scoliosis surgery -  revision, as well as initial
• Spine tumor surgery
• Reconstructive surgery
• Spinal stenosis surgery

In addition to surgery after initial diagnosis, Dr. Vaidya successfully performs “revision surgery” for cervical or lumbar fusion, as well as scoliosis.  Revision surgery is performed when previous a spine surgery was unsuccessful or is required again.

To learn more about Receiving’s orthopaedic expertise, please call (313) 745-4230.