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Dr. Scott Hacker is a San Diego Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon who specializes in knee and shoulder injuries and conditions. While medicine becomes more complex, we focus on YOU and treat you as a whole person. Dr. Hacker’s approach starts with compassion and care and integrates a broad knowledge base of the technical aspects of the musculoskeletal system. Your success is our success. We look forward to caring for you.

Knee

1Learn more about knee surgery, ACL tears, meniscus tears and chondral injuries, and arthritis. Minimally invasive surgery, arthroscopy, and arthroplasty.

Shoulder

2Painful throwing shoulder, overuse injuries and dislocations. Tendon tears. Is surgery an option?.

Sports

3Injured on or off the field, Dr. Hacker Specializes in taking care of you!

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Latest News

ACL Graft Choices: Make an informed decision

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction can be done with several different graft choices. These include patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, and donor tissue (allograft). Each of these choices has advantages and disadvantages. ACL reconstruction is not an ACL repair. A repair implies that you can fix something that is broken. If an ACL is completely torn, [...]

When another ‘policy’ goes too far in the OR

After a skateboard injury, a young man was left with a fairly significant ankle fracture (a comminuted segmental fibula fracture). I saw him with his x-rays in my office and we made the decision to treat the fracture surgically. His surgery was scheduled for the following day. Upon arriving at the hospital to perform the [...]

Clavicle Fractures

Clavicle fractures are extremely common injuries. The injuries usually caused by a fall onto the shoulder region itself. Sometimes, this results in an injury to the acromioclavicular joint often termed a shoulder separation. While painful, this injury can be overcome either with or without the need for surgery.

Conditioning to prevent ACL tears

Yesterday, a variety of potential causes of increased ACL tears in young women was discussed.potential etiologies included anatomical variations, questions of hormonal changes and differences in biomechanics that exist between management and women. While not all of these have proven to be the case, there is little that can be done in terms of changing [...]

High risk of ACL tears in female athletes

Anterior cruciate ligament tears in female athletes are among the most common injury seen in my office. Knee injuries in general are the highest reason for female season-ending injuries with nearly all requiring surgical treatment. Soccer and basketball are the most injury-prone sports.

Rotator Cuff Tears: Do I need to fix it ?

Today I was asked twice if I needed to repair a patient’s rotator cuff tear. The answer is not the same for everyone !

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