SJM_PROFILE_Premier_Orthopaedics_0821_profile 8 / 26 / 21 1 : 01 PM Page 1 PROMOTION B U S I N E S S S P O T L I G H T She commonly addresses neck and low back pain with advanced treatment options ranging from epidural steroid From Discovery to Recovery injections and nerve blocks to nerve stim - ulation therapy . Patients of all ages and activity levels can trust the comprehensive When first meeting a patient , Dr . Cooper team of physicians at Premier Orthopaedic Associates to resolve conducts a thorough history of their pain , what treatments they’ve tried and the impact injuries and alleviate pain for an improved quality of life . by LIZ HUNTER it’s had on the patient’s life . “ I often catch shoulder injury as a young football player , Dr . patients after they’ve tried so much with no nyone who has experienced an injury McAlpin regularly works with athletes of all relief . Generally , patients with chronic pain sustained while playing sports or who levels and has honed his specialties toward are going to have it for the rest of their lives suffers from chronic pain knows how it A shoulders and knees , the most common and my goal is to get them functional and can affect their daily life and mood . Patients areas where athletes have injuries , helping back to doing what they enjoy . … And often bounce from doctor to doctor , receiving them get back on the field quickly . because I see these patients a couple of inconsistent diagnoses and treatment plans In many cases , the physicians at Premier times a year for regular intervention , I am that require prolonged recovery or pre - Orthopaedic Associates have firsthand knowl - really able to build that relationship and help scription meds to numb the pain , preventing edge of what their patients are experiencing . them reach their best self , given the cir - them from living a full life . Eddie S . Wu , D.O . , FAOAO , is an orthopaedic cumstances they are in , ” she says . However , here in South Jersey , Premier surgeon who is fellowship trained in With access to more than a dozen other Orthopaedic Associates has disrupted the adult specialists within Premier Orthopaedic status quo with its unique one - stop shop total joint reconstruction . As a teenager , Associates ’ umbrella , Dr . Cooper is able to orthopaedic model of care . Dr . Wu tore his ACL consult directly with them if a patient may Founded in 1998 by Thomas Dwyer , ( anterior cruciate lig - benefit from another treatment , such as M.D . , FAAOS , Premier Orthopaedic Associ - ament ) and under - spine surgery . ates has grown from two primary surgeons went reconstructive This approach and continuum of care and five office staff to well over 115 employees knee surgery . Dr . Wu with 24 providers , 11 of whom are fellowship - learned that surgery as earned these three physicians from h trained orthopaedic surgeons ; several pain was done to prevent Premier Orthopaedic Associates recogni - EDDIE S . WU , management physicians , a few non - opera - instability during tion as Top Physicians , as selected by South D.O . , FAOAO tive sports and prevent Jersey Magazine’s readers . orthopaedic physicians , multiple physi - the early onset of arthritis in his knee . He now “ I want to thank South Jersey Magazine cianassistants , and in - house physical therapy performs total knee and hip replacements for doing this , ” says Dr . McAlpin . “ I believe and occupational medicine departments . regularly on patients as part of Premier patients count on the opinions of others who With every orthopaedic field represented Orthopaedic Associates . have gone through care and I pride myself on under one roof , patients take comfort and “ Hip and knee replacements continue to how many patients have come in from refer - trust in the way their care is seamlessly be considered two of the most successful rals . When other people see your work , managed from discovery to recovery . surgeries in all of medicine to alleviate pain report good results and vote , it means a lot Fred McAlpin III , D.O . , FAOAO , has and improve quality of life , ” Dr . Wu says . to me . ” been with Premier since 1999 when he “ Advancements in minimally invasive surgical Dr . McAlpin also sees this as further first emerged from residency and joined techniques and post - operative pain proto - motivation to influence the future of Dr . Dwyer . Dr . McAlpin is a board - certified , cols are allowing patients to recover faster orthopaedic surgeons . Not only is he the fellowship - trained orthopaedic sports med - than ever . In fact , more and more patients are program director at Inspira Health Network’s icine surgeon who treats common condi - able to be discharged home the day of Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program , tions such as joint surgery either from the hospital or our but he is the current sitting president of pain , broken bones surgery the American Osteopathic Academy of and joint replace - centers . The best part of my job is Orthopaedics , and its first minority presi - ment procedures . hearing how much better my patients ’ quality When any patient of life is and what activities they are now able dent . “ I’m proud to be president and turning presents with an to enjoy with their new joint replacement . ” it over to the vice president , who is also a injury or pain , Dr . The newest addition to Premier Ortho - minority . … I tell my younger minority FRED McALPIN III , McAlpin says it is not paedic Associates is Niti D . Cooper , D.O . , a patients , you’d make a great orthopaedic D.O . , FAOAO taken at just face board - certified anes - surgeon . It’s important to see , no matter value . “ When a patient comes in with a thesiologist with a what challenges they face , they can turn n shoulder injury , during the exam we’ll look subspecialty board them into things they can overcome . ” for other sources of certification in pain pain , which might be a medicine . Dr . Cooper pinched nerve , and can easily refer the was drawn to Premier patient to a neck specialist here in the office . Premier Orthopaedic Associates because of its multi - Or it could be a patient who was in a car acci - NITI D . COOPER , of Southern New Jersey disciplinary model of dent and has injuries in multiple areas , and D.O . Multiple locations across South Jersey care . She looks for - we have specialists to treat those specific iso - ward to being part of the team and providing lated injuries , ” he says . ( 856 ) 690 - 1616 ( text or call ) more comprehensive care for patients . Inspired by his own recovery from a POASNJ.com SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 18 issue 5 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 54 |