Providing Timely Access To Quality Comprehensive Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Care

Do you have a patient suffering from a musculoskeletal injury or condition?

Access Orthopaedics can help your patient get the timely support they need to properly manage their musculoskeletal health. 

Are you a patient? Have your health care provider fill out this referral form and send it to our office today!​

We accept referrals from physicians, physiotherapists and chiropractors with a valid practitioner ID.​

Appointments are covered by Alberta Health Care with a valid Alberta Health or Provincial Health Care card. 

Please note we do not accept WCB patients.

Why Refer Your Patient to Access Orthopaedics?

TIMELY ACCESS

Wait times for orthopaedic consultation can be lengthy, even up to 2-3 years. Access Orthopaedics can provide your patient with treatment options sooner and direct them to the appropriate care provider promptly.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY EVIDENCE-BASED CARE

Assessments at Access Orthopaedics involve a multidisciplinary team of experts, including orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, sport medicine physicians,  primary care physicians, and physiotherapists who focus on providing evidence-based care. This approach provides patients with a comprehensive assessment and treatment plan that is communicated back to the referring provider.​

PATIENT-CENTERED CARE

With Access Orthopaedics, patients feel empowered through their rehabilitation. We encourage patients to be active participants in their recovery by providing the knowledge they need to make informed decisions regarding their care. Our goal is to improve a patient’s pain and function, allowing them to return to their occupations, recreational activities, and daily routine sooner.

APPROPRIATE HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION

This streamlined approach to musculoskeletal care has numerous benefits for patients and the health care system alike, by improving care and reducing healthcare costs. We reach this goal by eliminating multiple referrals to different care providers, directing patients to the best-suited provider when required, and reducing unnecessary imaging and related wait times.

“The Access Orthopaedics clinic has significantly changed the way that I provide shoulder care to Albertans. Before this central-access approach, patients would routinely wait for over a year to find out from me if they needed physiotherapy, more tests or if they needed surgery for their shoulder problem. If a patient came to me and then needed advanced diagnostic tests, they would wait many months again. It was challenging to provide timely surgery.

Now, when I see a new patient, they’ve usually had non-surgical treatment and have the appropriate advanced diagnostic testing. In essence, they come with everything I need to explain options and treatment at the time of initial consultation. I feel that patients are waiting less overall, and the ones who will most benefit from surgery are getting to me more efficiently.”

Marlis Sabo , Orthopaedic Surgery – University of Calgary

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