health pros Florida Musculoskeletal Institute

The doctors of FMI know how to eliminate pain — and they have the numbers to prove it.

Because Central Florida boasts a large busy, ambitious, and active senior population, it is naturally a popular area for medical practices that feature orthopaedic reconstructive and joint replacement surgery. However, Florida Musculoskeletal Institute is unlike other practices in many ways. FMI has been serving the area for thirty-five years. Its board-certified orthopaedic surgeons share a collective 100 years practicing a wide range of pain relief and mobility restoration treatments. Each and every FMI surgeon has performed hundreds of safe, successful surgeries. FMI’s doctors are specialists in leading-edge, safe, and proven-effective technologies.

“As a patient, you want a physician who treats you as a unique individual,” says Dr. Cowin. “Even as surgeons, our philosophy is to treat our patients conservatively and approach surgery as a last resort. We have many effective options that allow our patients to return to their normal activity level without surgery. Patients should be able to count on a practice’s success rate, safety stats, and the expertise of their doctors to provide safe and lasting results.”

FMI offers patients a wide range of options to treat pain, stiffness, and weakness, including sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery, rotator cuff repair, cartilage repair, trauma, and fracture care, podiatry and osteoporosis evaluation. Additionally, FMI offers most types of joint replacement procedures including customized “perfect fit” knee joints, gender-specific knee replacement, shoulder replacement, and anterior approach hip replacement, which utilizes a custom table to enable surgical entry from the front of the hip instead of the side or back. “I love this procedure,” says Dr. Ollivierre. “It reduces cutting into the surrounding muscles so recovery is faster, pain is reduced, and most patients are up and moving the very same day. It is truly revolutionary. FMI was the first to offer this procedure locally and, even though I’ve performed it many times, the ingenuity still impresses me.”

The doctors of FMI have the surgical, educational, and hands-on experience few local surgeons can match. And, as experts, they encourage people seeking pain relief to do their homework by checking a physician’s credentials and asking neighbors and friends about their experiences with orthopaedic specialists in the area. “Although a lot of people travel in from other locales to see our doctors, most of our patients live here in the area. We live in the same community, so our reputation is everything. And we’re proud that most all of our patients surveyed would recommend us to friends and family. That is the ultimate testimonial,” says Dr. Huntt.

Of their practice’s recent anniversary, Dr. Grey states, “I can say that our thirty-five years of helping thousands of people feel good again is an excellent beginning. We will never stop researching, learning, and applying the most effective technologies and procedures. And we will always work to ensure each patient feels like our number one priority.”