A serious accident often leaves behind a broken bone or a damaged joint that the emergency room stabilizes but doesn’t fully repair. At AICA Orthopedics, our orthopedic trauma surgeons take it from there, treating the fractures, dislocations, and complex injuries that need proper realignment and long-term recovery. We diagnose the damage with on-site imaging, repair it with the right procedure, and rehabilitate the injury so you regain full use of it. Whether your injury came from a car accident, a fall, or a high-impact collision, you can count on same-day appointments across multiple Metro Atlanta locations.
If you are facing a life-threatening emergency, severe bleeding, or a suspected head or spine injury, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room first. AICA treats the orthopedic injuries that follow, once you are stable.
A traumatic injury rarely damages just one structure, so your care draws on several specialists working from a single plan:
Our Atlanta orthopedic doctors are board-certified surgeons and neurosurgeons, and 60+ physicians across specialties means the right expert is available without a referral elsewhere.
Orthopedic trauma surgery repairs serious injuries to the bones, joints, and connective tissue, usually caused by a sudden, high-force event like a car crash, a bad fall, or a sports collision. Unlike a routine fracture that heals in a cast, traumatic injuries often involve bones broken in several places, joints knocked out of position, or damage severe enough that the bone cannot heal in proper alignment on its own.
That alignment is the whole point of the repair. Setting the bone or joint back to its correct position and holding it there is what protects your long-term movement and prevents complications like arthritis, deformity, or a fracture that never fully knits. AICA’s trauma surgeons focus on getting the structure right the first time, then guiding the rehabilitation that turns a repair into a recovery.
AICA’s orthopedic specialists diagnose and repair a wide range of traumatic injuries, including:
Not every fracture needs an operation. A bone that is stable and still in good alignment often heals well in a cast or brace. Surgery becomes the right choice when the injury is too severe to heal correctly on its own, which usually means one of the following:
When surgery is needed, moving quickly to restore alignment gives the injury its best chance to heal fully.
A precise picture of the damage drives every trauma repair, and AICA images on site, so there is no waiting on an outside facility.
When a fracture is stable and well-aligned, surgery isn’t the answer, and we treat it without one. Conservative trauma care may include:
When the injury is too severe for these to work, our surgeons walk you through the procedure that will repair it.
The procedure depends on which bone or joint is injured and how severe the damage is. Our trauma surgeons choose the approach that restores alignment with the least disruption the injury allows.
The most common trauma procedure, ORIF repositions the broken bone fragments (open reduction) and secures them with plates, screws, rods, or pins (internal fixation) so they heal in the correct position. It’s used across the body, from wrist and ankle fractures to more complex breaks in the arm and leg.
For fractures of the long bones, such as the femur or tibia, a metal rod is placed inside the hollow center of the bone to stabilize the break from within. This approach lets many patients bear weight sooner and is a mainstay of long-bone trauma repair.
When the injury is severe, badly swollen, or open, a frame outside the body holds the bone in position with pins through the skin. External fixation can stabilize an injury quickly, sometimes as a first step before a definitive repair once the soft tissue has settled.
A dislocated joint is repositioned, and when the surrounding ligaments are torn or the joint is unstable, surgery repairs those structures so the joint stays in place. Left untreated, an unstable joint tends to dislocate again.
When a fracture fails to heal (nonunion) or heals in the wrong position (malunion), reconstruction realigns the bone and encourages healing, sometimes with a bone graft to bridge the gap. This restores function to an injury that didn’t recover the first time.
Serious injuries often tear tendons and ligaments alongside the bone damage. Our surgeons repair these structures, frequently at the same time as the fracture, so the joint regains both stability and movement.
Some traumatic injuries need repair quickly, while others are scheduled once the initial swelling settles or after the emergency room has stabilized you. Either way, an AICA orthopedic specialist reviews your imaging, explains what is damaged, and walks through the plan before surgery. Depending on the repair, you may be under general anesthesia or a regional block. Your surgeon explains the procedure, the recovery timeline, and the risks up front, so you know what to expect.
When your trauma surgery is planned rather than emergent, a little preparation helps:
Recovery from a traumatic injury is usually longer than from a routine procedure, because the bone, and often the surrounding soft tissue, has more healing to do. Most plans move through protected immobilization, then a gradual return to weight and motion, then strengthening. General timelines vary widely by injury:
Physical therapy is central throughout. Our physical therapists guide you through exercises that rebuild strength, motion, and function while protecting the repair, and coordinate directly with your surgeon so your progress is tracked from the operating room to your last appointment.
For patients injured in an accident that wasn’t their fault, eligible care often comes with no out-of-pocket cost, because AICA bills the claim, not you.
Orthopedic trauma surgeons, neurologists, physical therapists, and pain management specialists work in the same practice at AICA, so your diagnosis, surgery, and rehabilitation run as one process instead of a chain of referrals. For patients hurt in a car accident, we document the injury thoroughly for your records and your claim, which matters when a serious injury turns into a long recovery. That care is backed by more than 15,000 verified Google reviews, same-day appointments, 24/7 doctor access, and multiple Metro Atlanta locations.
If a fracture or accident injury is keeping you from the life you had before it, the first step is an accurate diagnosis and a clear plan to heal it correctly. If you’re looking for expert orthopedic trauma surgery near you, schedule a consultation today or call (404) 855-2141, and take the first step toward a full recovery.
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