{"id":44,"date":"2018-05-02T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:28:12","slug":"knee-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Knees<\/h5>\n<h2 id=\"mce_0\" class=\"editor-rich-text__tinymce mce-content-body\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write heading\u2026\" aria-autocomplete=\"list\" aria-multiline=\"true\" data-is-placeholder-visible=\"false\"><strong>Dr. Spero Karas: Knee Surgeon<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A highly trained and internationally recognized knee surgeon with <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018_Academic-CV_1.11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>25+ years of specialized expertise<\/strong><\/a> in orthopedic sports medicine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/spero-g-karas-md\/\"><strong>Dr. Karas<\/strong><\/a> knows knee injuries and how to treat them. His research on knee injuries and knee surgery has been published in peer-reviewed journals and he has given numerous presentations and lectures on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MeetSperoKaras-e1527000809122-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Spero Karas | Atlanta | knee surgeon\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Damaged knees bench professional athletes and pick-up game players alike. Dr. Karas applies the very same expert sports medicine care he gives to the hard-training athletes of the Atlanta Braves and Falcons to you and your knee injury. His goal is to provide an excellent level of care to athletes of all ages and levels.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mce_3\" class=\"editor-rich-text__tinymce mce-content-body\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write heading\u2026\" aria-autocomplete=\"list\" aria-multiline=\"true\" data-is-placeholder-visible=\"false\"><strong>Common Knee Injuries<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Knee pain, especially for athletes and people with active lifestyles, is fairly common and may be an indication of a more serious underlying knee injury. <strong>Symptoms of underlying knee conditions may present in the following ways: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul id=\"mce_5\" class=\"editor-rich-text__tinymce mce-content-body\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write list\u2026\" aria-autocomplete=\"list\" aria-multiline=\"true\" data-is-placeholder-visible=\"false\">\n<li>Knee pain<\/li>\n<li>Swelling of the knee<\/li>\n<li>Tenderness when pressing on an area of the knee<\/li>\n<li>Popping or clicking within the knee<\/li>\n<li>Limited motion of the knee joint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are experiencing one or more of these symptoms,\u00a0 Dr. Karas can provide the skilled surgical techniques required to get you up and moving again. Dr. Karas served as the Atlanta Falcons\u2019 head team physician from 2011-2018, the longest tenured team orthopedic surgeon in the NFC South division. He serves as a consulting team physician for the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Georgia Tech, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and Georgia Perimeter College.<\/p>\n<p>From professional athletes to patients from local elementary schools, <strong>Dr. Karas utilizes his knowledge as a knee surgeon to treat both common knee injuries and degenerative knee conditions, such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul id=\"mce_7\" class=\"editor-rich-text__tinymce mce-content-body\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write list\u2026\" aria-autocomplete=\"list\" aria-multiline=\"true\" data-is-placeholder-visible=\"false\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/anatomic-all-inside-acl-reconstruction\/\"><strong>ACL tears<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/pediatric-acl-reconstruction\/\"><strong>Pediatric ACL tears<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/meniscal-repair\/\"><strong>Meniscus tears<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/cartilage-repair-and-regeneration\/\"><strong>Cartilage repair and regeneration<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"mce_8\" class=\"editor-rich-text__tinymce mce-content-body\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write heading\u2026\" aria-autocomplete=\"list\" aria-multiline=\"true\" data-is-placeholder-visible=\"false\"><strong>Knee Pain\u00a0 and Knee Injury Solutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Knee pain doesn\u2019t have to be a part of you or your child\u2019s life. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/locations\/offices\/1968-hawks-lane.html\"><strong>Emory Sports Medicine Complex<\/strong><\/a>, Dr. Karas offers a full range of options available to restore knee function for a happy, active, and productive life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first step towards successful treatment is a proper diagnosis by a qualified knee surgeon.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/contact\/appointments\/\">Contact Dr. Karas today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knees Dr. Spero Karas: Knee Surgeon A highly trained and internationally recognized knee surgeon with 25+ years of specialized expertise in orthopedic sports medicine, Dr. Karas knows knee injuries and how to treat them. His research on knee injuries and knee surgery has been published in peer-reviewed journals and he has given numerous presentations and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/knee-treatment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"show-for-sr\"> &#8220;Knees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/two-column.php","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[28,19,29,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperokaras.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}