JAOAO | Fall/Winter 2025

Volume IX, Number 3 | Fall/Winter 2025

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT SERIES

History of Orthopedic Residency at Western Reserve Hospital

Program Director Koan Heindel, DO and Past Program Director Gregory Hill, DO, FAOAO

The orthopedic surgery residency program at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital (CFGH) in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was founded in the mid-1970s by Richard A.  Josof, DO, FAOAO.  At that time, Cuyahoga Falls General was an osteopathic hospital just outside of Akron, Ohio.  Before 1978, the hospital was known as Green Cross Osteopathic Hospital, which was founded in 1943. 

In the early years of the osteopathic profession, all osteopathic graduates were required to complete a rotating internship year. This year consisted of rotations in internal medicine, emergency medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, and house nights. Read more…

Program Series Articles from Western Reserve

SPECIAL INTEREST ARTICLE

Global Health Outreach Orthopedic/Hand Surgery in Honduras. The final week of May 2025. Our daily schedules were set. Our minds were free, eager to sponge up the experience; soaking in every lasting memory, every interaction and reaction, predicting an impactful trip, but ultimately undervaluing the monumental influence and lasting legacy we would have on the Residents, Faculty, Honduran citizens and their community. More so, the affect they would have on us. Our hearts were on fire for service. Read more…

general

hand/elbow

shoulder & elbow

spine

sports medicine

Non-operative Management Strategies for Lateral Epicondylitis: A Comprehensive Literature Review

trauma

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics

Steven J. Heithoff, DO, MBA, FAOAO
Editor-in-Chief

Online ISSN: 2996-1742
Frequency: Trianually

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