Dr. John T Ruth MD
Orthopedist | Orthopaedic Trauma
707 N Alvernon Way Suite 205 Tucson AZ, 85711About
Dr. John Ruth is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Ruth specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Ruth 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
Univ of Az Coll of Med, Tucson Az 1984
University of Arizona College of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fractures of the tibial plateau.
- Operative management of fractures of the tibial plateau.
- The effect of implant overlap on the mechanical properties of the femur.
- Bilateral asymmetric hip dislocation: case report and literature review.
- An instrumented scaffold can monitor loading in the knee joint.
- Sensate scaffolds can reliably detect joint loading.
- The combined olecranon osteotomy, lateral paratricipital sparing, deltoid insertion splitting approach for concomitant distal intra-articular and humeral shaft fractures.
- Capitellocondylar total elbow replacement. A long-term follow-up study.
- Olecranon osteotomy repair: the tensioned locking plate technique.
- A novel biomimetic polymer scaffold design enhances bone ingrowth.
- In vivo telemetric determination of shear and axial loads on a regenerative cartilage scaffold following ligament disruption.
- Determination of joint loads using new sensate scaffolds for regenerating large cartilage defects in the knee.
- Analysis of Musculoskeletal Injuries Sustained in Falls From the United States-Mexico Border Fence.
- Two-stage reimplantation in infected total knee arthroplasty.
- Load transfer through a hydroxyapatite-coated canine hip implant.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain
- Cellulitis
- Femur Fracture
- Broken Ankle
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