Team Approach to Extremities at Risk

The Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk is a team of medical professionals who specialize in management and treatment of conditions and diseases that place people at risk of losing an extremity. In existence for over 20 years, this group has established itself as the Rocky Mountain region's premier medical community to evaluate and treat persons at risk for amputation due to trauma or disease.

Our main treatment areas are:

  • Extremity Tumors - benign and malignant
  • Non-union of Fractures
  • Osteomyelitis - bone infection
  • Osteonecrosis
  • Leg Deformity
  • Amputation Reconstruction/Revision
  • New Amputation
  • Mangled Extremities (Stable Trauma)
  • Single Limb Traumatic Amputation (Replantation)

 


Our group brings together important components of patient care:

  • Expertise in adult and pediatric oncology, orthopedic surgery and orthopedic oncology, infectious diseases, microvascular plastic surgeons, amputation rehabilitation, pathology, and neuromodulation for pain management
  • The latest treatments with proven success based on continuing Denver Clinic clinical research
  • Weekly interdisciplinary patient conference
  • Active involvement in outcome studies, publications, and presentations at world-wide medical conferences
  • Full-time referral coordinator to assist with new patient referrals, appointments, transportation, and lodging during the patient work-up
  • Social work services to assist with financial counseling and psychosocial concerns
 

About Our Program

Comprehensive Care

Our group brings together important components of patient care:

  • Expertise in adult and pediatric oncology, orthopedic surgery and orthopedic oncology, infectious diseases, microvascular plastic surgeons, amputation rehabilitation, pathology, and neuromodulation for pain management
  • The latest treatments with proven success based on continuing Denver Clinic clinical research
  • Weekly interdisciplinary patient conference
  • Active involvement in outcome studies, publications, and presentations at world-wide medical conferences
  • Full-time referral coordinator to assist with new patient referrals, appointments, transportation, and lodging during the patient work-up
  • Social work services to assist with financial counseling and psychosocial concerns

 

 

 

Weekly Patient Conference

 

thumb_limb_pres_conf_oct_02_08-72dpiThe cornerstone of Extremities at Risk Program is a weekly clinical conference where medical specialists gather to discuss clinical issues and potential patient treatment plans. The clinical conference matches advanced protocols or successful new surgical techniques to the individual patient. The treating physician will often return with follow-up information about the results, aiding in future discussions regarding patients with similiar problems.

 

 

 

 

meet the team

Michael Sassman, DO

MSassmanDr. Michael Sassman is an interventional radiologist with Diversified Radiology of Colorado. He attended osteopathic medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. His radiology residency was completed at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center. He went on to complete a fellowship in interventional radiology at Boston University Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. As an interventional radiologist, Dr. Sassman is a key member of the extremity tumor team.

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