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Summit Orthopedics: Comprehensive Orthopedic Care in the Twin Cities

Schedule an Appointment at One of 18 Twin Cities Metro Clinics Today

Article by David Scheller

Photography by Summit Orthopedics

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When you need orthopedic care in the Twin Cities, you don’t want a half measure. Your goal is to regain full mobility and fully escape from pain, which is why you want a comprehensive solution to orthopedic care.

In fewer words, you want Summit Orthopedics. No other orthopedic clinic in the Twin Cities provides greater convenience, a higher standard of care, or a greater number of services than Summit Orthopedics: an independent, physician-led practice that was founded in St. Paul in 1986. Here’s why!

Eighteen Convenient Locations in the Twin Cities Metro

Summit Orthopedics presently treats arthritis, sports injuries, and foot, ankle, hand, upper extremity, spine, back and neck conditions at nearly 30 clinics throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Of these, 18 are located in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area:

  • Blaine

  • Coon Rapids (2)

  • Eagan (2)

  • Eden Prairie

  • Lakeville

  • Maple Grove

  • Minnetonka

  • Plymouth

  • Shakopee

  • St. Paul (2)

  • Vadnais Heights

  • Woodbury (4)

Skilled and Compassionate Staff

The physicians who own Summit Orthopedics understand that great medical care begins with great people. That’s why the Twin Cities orthopedic care provider employs five dozen skilled physicians, plus the brigade of kind and experienced nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists, and certified athletic trainers they need to do their best work.

“There’s a term that gets thrown around a lot these days,” said Dr. Michael Q. Freehill, a board-certified orthopedic sports medicine surgeon who specializes in shoulder and elbow injuries. “It’s ‘patient-centered care.’ I’d like to think I practiced it long before it became popular, and I’m grateful to have joined an organization where it is valued so highly. Truly, to work at Summit Orthopedics means to put each patients’ needs first: always.”

State-of-the-Art Medical Facilities

Are you experiencing an orthopedic emergency in the Twin Cities, such as an injury resulting from a fall? Don’t jeopardize your chance at a fast and full recovery by going to a general hospital’s emergency room. Go to Summit Orthopedics instead, where you’ll:

  • Meet with a qualified specialist in orthopedic injuries

  • Quickly receive an accurate diagnosis courtesy of an on-site X-ray machine

  • Share a waiting area with patients who aren’t presently seeking treatment for contagious illnesses

Summit Orthopedics’ Twin Cities orthopedic clinics don’t merely include the facilities required for surgery. Only one in five Summit Orthopedics patients actually receive surgery, with the rest opting for treatment via gentler interventions such as physical therapy, therapeutic joint injections, and orthobiologics.

“We know our patients would rather do everything in their power to avoid surgery,” said Dr. Steven M. Stulc, who sees patients at Summit Orthopedics’ Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Monticello and Plymouth clinics. “That’s why we only advise surgery when we deem it to be absolutely in the patient’s best interest, and when noninvasive treatment fails to achieve their desired outcome.”

Schedule an Appointment Today

No matter your need for orthopedics in the Twin Cities, Summit Orthopedics is standing by to help you move and feel right again. Call or text (651) 968-5201 to schedule an appointment at any of their one dozen Twin Cities metro orthopedics clinics, or click here to schedule online!

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