Reach Your Height

Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Gary Brock, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston, Texas about his practice treating pediatric patients, one of whom was Payton Alix Gray, a talented dancer whose leg was lengthened using the PRECICE® intramedullary nail. 

Profile of dancer and actor, Payton Alix Gray and his journey through limb lengthening using the PRECICE® intramedullary lengthening and compression nail. We hear from Payton, his parents, Trina and Terrence Gray, and his surgeon, Dr. Gary Brock, from his practice in Houston, Texas. Payton’s femur was broken in-utero for unknown reasons. Payton and his parents describe their multi-year search for a solution for this athlete, what it was like to dance with a shoe lift, Dr. Brock’s recommendation for surgery, what the procedure and recovery were like and Payton's remarkable return to dance. In Part II, we’ll dive deeper by hearing Dr. Mitchell Bernstein’s conversation with Dr. Gary Brock about Payton’s case.

Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Stuart Green, who was the first American surgeon to visit Dr. G.A. Ilizarov in Kurgan, USSR in 1987 and was instrumental in introducing the Ilizarov method of treating limb length discrepancies, deformities, non-unions and malunions to orthopedic surgeons around the world. In 2009, Dr. Green became involved in what would eventually become a fully implantable intramedullary nail that would lengthen or shorten any long bone by using an external remote controller or ERC powered by magnets. He is co-inventor of the device, called the PRECICE nail, the only externally controlled intramedullary lengthening and compression nail currently available in the United States.

Episode 6: Patient and Surgeon: Recent college grad and water polo athlete Joeli Reim describes her experience having her leg lengthened with both with an external fixator as well as PRECICE®. Then our host, Dr. Mitchell Bernstein, interviews Joeli's surgeon, fellow Canadian, Dr. Maryse Bouchard of Seattle Children's and the University of Washington.

Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Scott Hoffinger, Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University and Vice Chief of Clinical Operations, Pediatric Orthopaedics at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. Dr. Hoffinger is also part of the bio-design fellowship working with the School of Engineering looking at solutions to commonly encountered problems in the medical workplace.

Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Austin Fragomen, fellowship director at the Hospital for Special Surgery on the limb lengthening and complex reconstruction service and associate professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery, about adult limb reconstruction, specifically non-union and mal-union treatment. 

Host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Robert Rozbruch, Chief of the Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service and Director of the Limb Salvage and Amputation Reconstruction Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York about adult limb length discrepancy, post-traumatic reconstruction, some considerations and problem areas to avoid.

Dr. Scott Nelson, Director of the International Limb Lengthening Institute at Loma Linda University, talks with host, Dr. Mitchell Bernstein about advancements in limb reconstruction and leg lengthening including specifics about patient selection, case planning, the types of images needed and the importance of each, physical therapy before and after surgery and surgery preparation.

In our first episode, host Dr. Mitchell Bernstein talks with Dr. Christopher Iobst, orthopedic surgeon in Columbus, Ohio, based out of Nationwide Childrens Hospital about limb reconstruction for pediatric patients.