Dr. John Michael Wattenbarger MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
1915 Randolph Rd Suite 300 Charlotte NC, 28207Rating
4/5
About
Dr. John Wattenbarger is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Wattenbarger specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system in children. As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Wattenbarger tends to childrens bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can treat newborns to teenagers. Some conditions Dr. Wattenbarger treats include gait abnormalities like limping, limp and spine deformities, broken bones and bone and joint infections.
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
- A comparison of single-rod instrumentation with double-rod instrumentation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
- Effect of interposed periosteum in an animal physeal fracture model.
- Mechanical testing of a single rod versus a double rod in a long-segment animal model.
- Early versus late reduction of a physeal fracture in an animal model.
- Late open reduction internal fixation of lateral condyle fractures.
- Physeal fractures, part II: fate of interposed periosteum in a physeal fracture.
- Workforce, work, and advocacy issues in pediatric orthopaedics.
- Ventricular ejection fractions of linear transformation and ellipsoid models.
Residency
- Tx Scottish Rite Hosp-Chldn, Pediatrics Orthopedics; Univ Tx Southwestern Med Sch, Orthopedic Surgery
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