We provide comprehensive treatment for: 

Total Orthopedics provides care for all hand problems from acute injuries to chronic overuse problems. Our expert team of hand and wrist injury specialists utilize post surgical and non-surgical approaches to treat chronic hand and wrist conditions.

For those who may be in need of surgery, our surgeons provide services at several hospitals including Nassau University Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital at Syosset (the top ambulatory surgery center for the North Shore System) North Shore University Hospital at Franklin and South Shore Surgery Center (a boutique private ambulatory surgery center in Bay Shore).

We provide comprehensive treatment for:

• Carpal Tunnel Surgery
• Trigger Fingers
• Duputryens Disease
• DeQuervein’s Syndrome
• CMC Joint Osteoarthritis
• Ulnar Collateral Ligament Tears
• Ulnar Nerve Neuropathy
• Extensor and Flexor Tendon Tears
• Tendonitis of the Wrist or Hand
• Finger Dislocation
• Wrist Fracture
• Scapholunate Ligament Tears Instability
• Osteoarthritis of the Wrist or Hand
• Fractures of the Distal Radius and Ulna

Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine provides for the evaluation and treatment of the full spectrum of elbow disorders form acute fractures, to chronic overuse problems and osteoarthritis.

Most importantly expertise in the prevention and rehabilitation of elbow injuries is what we are renown for as most elbow injuries, whether tendonitis or ligament injuries from throwing, can be rehabilitated successfully. The key for successful rehabilitation is the recognition of underlying biomechanical problems such as posterior shoulder stiffness in the overhand thrower.

For those that do require surgery our surgeons provide services at several hospitals including Nassau University Medical Center, North Shore Syosset (the top ambulatory surgery center for the North Shore System) and South Shore Surgery Center (a boutique private ambulatory surgery center in Bay Shore).

We provide comprehensive treatment for:

• Tennis elbow
• Golfers Elbow
• Tommy John’s Surgery
• Medial and Lateral Epicondylitis
• Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
• Lateral Collateral and Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injuries
• Osteochondritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Medial epicondylar release
• Tendon and Ligament Reconstruction
• Bicep Reconstruction

The pain management service at Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine provides interventional pain management services for patients with neurologic pain for cervical and lumbar herniated nucleus pulposis, cervical and lumbar radiculopathy, radiculopathy from cervical and lumbar stenosis, and radiculopathy from spondylolisthesis.

Procedures performed by our pain management team include cervical and lumbar epidural steroid injections, lumbar facet injections, and neurostimulator implantation. For patients with significant post operative pain regional intrascalene and femoral nerve blocks can be performed in the office for extended pain control during the early rehabilitation process. Our pain management services are provided for in our Massapequa and Bronx locations.

The fracture service at Total Orthopedics has a highly skilled team in the care and management of fractures, post-traumatic infections, nonunion of fractures, and deformity correction. Dr Mellon has specialty training in the operative fixation of hip fractures, pelvis fractures, knee, shoulder and ankle fractures, femur and tibia fractures and foot and calcaneus fractures. He is also an expert in the use of the spatial frame for deformity correction. This is a very technically demanding but powerful technique to correct deformities.

In patients with significant bone loss from trauma or from post-traumatic infection the spatial frame can be used to transport bone to make up for bone loss and to correct the deformity. Our surgeons provide services at several hospitals including Nassau University Medical Center a New York State Designated Level 1 Trauma Center, North Shore Syosset (the top ambulatory surgery center for the North Shore System.