Taizoon H Baxamusa, MD,FACS
Northbrook, IL

Taizoon H. Baxamusa, MD, FACS was born in London, England and moved to the United States where he was raised in the Chicago suburbs. He graduated from Northwestern University with a major in Economics. He was a competitive swimmer and played Inter Collegiate Water Polo for Northwestern as an Undergraduate. He then received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 1995, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society. Dr. Baxamusa then traveled to Yale University, in New Haven , CT. where he spent the next five years in internship and Orthopaedic Surgical Residency. He completed a one year Hand/Upper Extremity/ & Microvascular Surgery fellowship at The Indiana Hand Center in Indianapolis, IN. and is currently Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Baxamusa's early career began as a community orthopaedic surgeon in a rural area for three years with an emphasis on his upper extremity practice. He now practices with the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Morton Grove, IL. a large orthopaedic group with tertiary referrals and level I trauma centers. He focuses his practice predominantly on the upper extremity from the shoulder to the fingertip, and also performs microvascular surgery, including replantation. Dr. Baxamusa holds the title of Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery with the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is involved with resident education in Hand Sugery in satellite rotations and in clinical research. He also serves on numerous committees within the American College of Surgeons, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and is on the physician advisory panel for the American Academy of Professional Coders. He resides in Northbrook with his wife and two children.

Areas of specialty

Active lifestyle

• Active lifestyle
• Boomeritis
• Weekend warrior

Coding reimbursement

• Coding reimbursement

Complementary and alternative medicine

• Acupuncture
• Exercise
• Glucosamine
• Herbal medicine or supplements
• Prevention
• Tai-chi
• Treatment
• Vitamins
• Yoga

Geriatric orthopaedics

• Geriatric orthopaedics

Injury prevention

• Backpack safety
• Boating safety
• Driving safety
• Fireworks safety
• Ladder safety
• Lawn mower safety and injuries
• Performing arts
• Slips and falls
• Snow shoveling and snow blower injuries
• Travel and luggage lifting

Medical educator

• Medical educator

Microvascular surgery

• Microvascular surgery

Miscellaneous

• Alograft tissue
• Cartilage replacement
• Chronic nerve pain
• Diagnostic imagin techniques
• Making a surgical decision
• Medical tourism and surgery overseas
• New technology
• Physical therapy and rehabilitation
• Prosthesis
• Smoking and musculoskeletal health
• Ultrasound

Orthopaedic education

• Orthopaedic education

Patient centered care

• Patient centered care

Patient safety

• Patient safety

Pediatric

• Elbow fracture
• Growth plate fractures
• Shoulder
• Sports medicine
• Trauma

Pharmaceuticals

• Pharmaceuticals

Shoulder – elbow - upper extremeties

• Baseball finger
• Biceps tendinitis
• Boutonniere deformity
• Broken collarbone
• Carpal scaphoid fractures
• Carpal tunnel
• Colles fracture
• Dislocated elbow
• Dislocated shoulder
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Elbow
• Elbow bursitis
• Elbow fractures
• Fingertip injuries
• Fracture of the scapula
• Frozen shoulder
• Ganglions of the wrist
• Hand
• Hand arthritis
• Olecranon fracture
• Radial head fractures
• Rotator cuff
• Rupture of biceps tendon
• Shoulder
• Shoulder impingement (bursitis, tendonitis)
• Sprained thumb
• Tennis elbow
• Trigger finger

Sports medicine

• Sports medicine

Sports: injury prevention

• All-terrain vehicles
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Biking/mountain biking
• Boxing
• Cheerleading
• Cross training
• Cycling
• Dancing
• Diving
• Field hockey
• Figure skating
• Football
• Go-carts
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Handball
• Helmet use
• Hockey
• Horseback riding/equestrian
• In-line skating
• Mini-bikes/trail bikes
• Mopeds or power-assisted cycles
• Mountain climbing
• Pitching
• Playgrounds
• Rowing
• Running
• Scooters/skateboards - powered
• Scooters/skateboards - unpowered
• Shin splints
• Skiing
• Sledding
• Slides
• Snowboarding
• Snowmobiles
• Soccer
• Starting an exercise program
• Steroids
• Strength training
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Track and field
• Trampoline safety
• Volleyball
• Water skiing
• Weight lifting
• Wrestling

Total joint replacement

• Elbow
• Infections
• Shoulder
• Wrist

Trauma

• Amputation
• Limb salvaging
• Reimplanting severed body parts

Volunteerism

• Volunteerism

Workplace injuries

• Tendonitis

Wrong site surgery

• Wrong site surgery

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