Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

One of the most serious injuries I’ve treated

19 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief testimonial, Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter, a trauma surgeon, describes treating a 15‑year‑old girl who suffered a knee dislocation in a car accident. He explains that the injury threatened the leg’s blood supply, requiring immediate stabilization with an external fixator—pins inserted into the bone and rods spanning the knee. After the soft tissues healed, the patient underwent staged ligament reconstructions. The surgeon notes that the patient, now 23, is walking normally, highlighting the successful long‑term functional recovery. He reflects that witnessing the patient’s journey through injury, surgery, and rehabilitation was deeply inspiring.

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I was a trauma surgeon, so I've taken care of a lot of injuries. I think probably the worst injury that I've treated was a 15-year-old girl who had a knee dislocation. A knee dislocation is extremely— she was in a car wreck. A knee dislocation can cost the blood supply to your leg. In her, we had to put her in an external fixator, so we put pins in her bone, we put rods across her knee to stabilize it, and once the tissue had healed, we did some reconstructions of the ligaments around her knee. And today, she's 23 years old, she's walking, it's been amazing. Yeah. But watching that young lady go through her process of injury, surgery, and treatment was really inspiring to me.