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Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance provides specialized, dynamic care for virtually any orthopedic condition. We partner this professional care with a highly-trained, medical support team and advanced medical technologies, providing you a matrix of care that gets you back to daily activities as quickly as possible. Visit any one of our many locations in East Tennessee to receive the orthopedic care you deserve and the treatment you expect.
Recent Articles
Mako® – Robotic-Arm Assisted Knee Replacement
We get a lot of questions about what is a robot? What does it do? How does it make you more accurate and more precise in surgery? So, what we wanted to do is go through all this and walk you through...
What is causing my heel pain?
Hi, I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins. I'm an orthopedic surgeon at TOC and I'm foot and ankle trained. So I have a lot of patients that come to my clinic with a lot of heel pain. Sometimes it's hard to...
Success After Shoulder Surgery
Pam Willis lived with pain in her left shoulder for many years. A retired Knoxville realtor, the 68-year-old now works part‐time at a women’s clothing store in Pigeon Forge, where she had trouble...
Covenant Health And Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance Partner With Sevier Co. Schools
Sevier County school officials announced Covenant Health and Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance (TOC) are now the exclusive sports medicine providers to Sevier County student athletes. TOC and Covenant...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Daniel G. Branham, M.D, a highly experienced hand surgeon at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, explains what carpal tunnel syndrome is.
MACI
MACI stands for Matrix Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation, and it’s a big fancy term for just means taking cells out of your knee joint and we can basically expand those into millions of cells to put them back in the knee to take care of a defect of the cartilage.
Who Is A Good Candidate for Spinal Injections?
So typically patients that undergo injections are ones that have been dealing with back or leg pain, neck or arm pain for at least six to eight weeks.
Herniated Disc Specialist for Young Adults in Knoxville, TN
Dr. Colin Booth, MD,spine medicine physician at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, explains what can be done for young adults with disc herniation.
Groundbreaking Robotic Surgery
Dr. Ryan Dabbs, who lives just outside Farragut, recently has performed the first robotic total knee replacement surgery in the state using the newest ZimmerBiomet ROSA device. A board-certified...
Back Pain Relief with Dr. John Lavelle
Dr. John Lavelle, a spine medicine physician at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, explains the options available for back pain to get you back to being your best self! Are you suffering from...
TOA Sponsors Visit Knoxville Sports
Community means everything to us. For over 25 years, we’ve made it our mission to invest in our community with our time and our resources whenever possible. Our most recent endeavor is as the Official Orthopedic/Athletic Training Practice for Visit Knoxville Sports. Visit Knoxville Sports hosts a variety of athletic event and we are honored to provide them with athletic trainers. We encourage everyone to attend these exciting competitions!
Dr. Pesut Demonstrates the Myerson Wrap
The proper Myerson Wrap technique for bunion surgery patients.