Dr. John Kenneth Burkus M.D.
Orthopedist
6262 Veterans Pkwy Columbus GA, 31909About
Dr. John Burkus is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Columbus, GA. Dr. Burkus specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Burkus 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1979
Yale School of Medicine 1979
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intervertebral fixation: clinical results with anterior cages.
- Posterior lumbar interbody fusion using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein type 2 with cylindrical interbody cages.
- Segmental lumbar lordosis: manual versus computer-assisted measurement using seven different techniques.
- Bone morphogenetic proteins in anterior lumbar interbody fusion: old techniques and new technologies. Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2004.
- Re: Kim DH, Jahng TA, Fu T-S, et al. Evaluation of HealosMP52 osteoinductive bone
- Surgical treatment of the painful motion segment: matching technology with indications.
- Radiographic evaluation of the postoperative interbody fusion patient: is CT the study of choice?
- CT evaluation of lumbar interbody fusion: current concepts.
- Short-term osteoclastic activity induced by locally high concentrations of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in a cancellous bone environment.
Treatments
- Back Pain
- Scoliosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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