Hip and Knee Clinics

Calgary

Alberta Hip and Knee Clinic
335, 401 9 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB T2P 3C5
Tel: (403) 266-3471

Fax: (403) 221-4387

Health Resource Centre – Central Surgical Intake
110, 1402 8 Avenue NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1B9
Tel: (403) 220-0410

Fax: (403) 220-0500

Red Deer

Central Alberta Hip and Knee Clinic
306, 3939 50A Avenue
Red Deer, AB T4N 4E6

Tel: (403) 358-5950
Fax: (403) 358-5808

Edmonton

Alberta Hip and Knee Clinic – Edmonton
2068 9499 137th Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5E 5R8

Tel: (780) 433-3155
Fax: (780) 432-6395

Grande Prarie

Grande Prairie Bone and Joint Clinic
QEII Hospital, 1 East
10409-98 Street
Grande Prairie, AB T8V 2E8
Tel: (780) 357-2504
Fax: (780) 357-2506

Spine Clinics

Calgary

Caleo Health
Crowfoot West Business Centre
340, 600 Crowfoot Cres. NW
Calgary, AB T3G 0B4
Tel: (403) 452-0999
Fax: (403) 452-0995

Knee Clinics

Calgary

Acute Knee Injury Clinic
University of Calgary, Sport Medicine Centre
376 Collegiate Blvd NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4

No-referral Knee Clinic

New no-referral knee injury clinic to cut wait list times

(News release January, 2009

The U of C’s Sport Medicine Clinic (SMC) announced on Jan. 5 the creation of a revolutionary new Acute Knee Injury Clinic that hopes to cut down waiting list times and help more patients receive appropriate care when they need it. “If you hurt your knee one of the most important things you can receive is timely, accurate assessment and care,” says Dr. Nick Mohtadi, an orthopedic surgeon with the SMC, which is located in the Faculty of Kinesiology.” Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen in today’s health-care system.”

“There are several unique elements about this clinic,” explains Mohtadi. “First of all you don’t need a family physician referral, if you injure your knee playing soccer, hockey or carrying groceries to the car, all you have to do is go online, book an appointment and in a matter of days you should be able to come in for an assessment and begin receiving treatment for your injured knee. There’s no way people should be suffering and risking more permanent injury by waiting so long.”

After booking an appointment online, patients will be assessed by non-physician experts—kinesiologists and certified athletic therapists—who will determine an appropriate course of treatment for a patient: Rehabilitation, physio-therapy or surgery, whichever course is most effective. The SMC’s Acute Knee Injury Clinic follows the lead of the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute’s landmark study which used a similar process to cut waiting times by an astonishing 90 percent and reported better patient outcomes. Mohtadi is certain that the SMC’s clinic will have similar results. “Absolutely, the Sport Medicine Centre is an elite clinic. Our non-physician experts and physicians treat Alberta’s top athletes and sports teams.

“We want to be able to treat more Albertans and we are certain that given our level of expertise and the clinics advanced practices we can do that with better outcomes for everyone who comes to us with an injury.”

The clinics’ services will be covered by Alberta Health Care. If you are injured and you’d like to receive treatment, head to the Sport Medicine Centre’s online triage registration