Clinical Interests

ACL/PCL tears; meniscal tears; shoulder instability and labral pathology; osteochondritis dissecans; hip, ankle and elbow injuries requiring arthroscopic procedures

Research Interests

Tunnel placement to avoid growth plates in ACL reconstruction; development of animal model (rabbit) of Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD); Clinical Outcomes after Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction (MPFL) for patellar instability; car seats are for cars – Misuse of car seats in the US, 2003 – 2007; outcomes of treatment of tibial spine / ACL avulsion fractures; outcomes of treatment of tibial tuberosity avulsion fractures; radiographic study of femoral attachment of MCL and MPFL; operating room traffic patterns and implications; clinical and Radiographic outcomes after ACL reconstruction; growth of Calcaneus from birth to 18 years

MD: Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India, 1996.

Residency: Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India, 2000.

Fellowship: New York University - Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, 2001.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 2002.

Fellowship: University of Toronto - Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, 2003.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, Cincinnati, 2004.

Parikh SN. Transepiphyseal replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament in skeletally immature patients: a preliminary report. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011 Feb;93(4):e12.

Parikh SN, Wells L, Mehlman CT, Scherl SA. Management of fractures in adolescents. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2010 Dec 15;92(18):2947-58. Review.

Parikh SN. Arthroscopic removal of a cannulated screw and washer from the knee joint. Orthopedics. 2010 Sep;33(9):675. doi: 10.3928/01477447-20100722-13.

Desai R, Parikh S, Laor T. Intra-articular entrapment of the medial collateral ligament. Orthopedics. 2010 Sep 7;33(9):687.doi:10.3928/01477447-20100722-19.

Parikh SN, Grice SS, Schnell BM, Salisbury SR. Operating room traffic: is there any role of monitoring it? J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Sep;30(6):617-23.

Parikh SN, Wilson L. Hazardous use of car seats outside the car in the United States, 2003-2007. Pediatrics. 2010 Aug;126(2):352-7.

Ladd PE, Laor T, Emery KH, Salisbury SR, Parikh SN. Medial collateral ligament of the knee on magnetic resonance imaging: does the site of the femoral origin change at different patient ages in children and young adults? J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Apr-May;30(3):224-30.

Ringer AJ, Matern E, Parikh S, Levine NB. Screening for blunt cerebrovascular injury: selection criteria for use of angiography. J Neurosurg. 2010 May;112(5):1146-9. Review.

Giuliano JS Jr, Lahni PM, Harmon K, Wong HR, Doughty LA, Carcillo JA, Zingarelli B, Sukhatme VP, Parikh SM, Wheeler DS. Admission angiopoietin levels in children with septic shock. Shock. 2007 Dec;28(6):650-654.

Parikh S, Koch M, Narayan RK. Traumatic brain injury. Int Anesthesiol Clin. 2007 Summer;45(3):119-35. Review.

Clinical Interests

Endoscopic non-fusion scoliosis correction with guided growth; sports growth plate arrest overuse syndromes; patella dislocations; anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in patients with open growth plates; osteochondritis dissecans treatment

Research Interests

Hip disorders; open pelvic osteotomy and endoscopic pelvic osteotomy
 

MD: University of California, San Diego, Calif.,1986.

Residency: Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, Calif., 1986-1992.

Fellowship: Biomechanics/Spine Research, University of California, San Diego, Calif., 1988-89; Pediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship, Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992-1993.

Certification: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, July 1995.

Lippert WC, Owens RF, Wall EJ. Salter-Harris type III fractures of the distal femur: plain radiographs can be deceptive. J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Sep;30(6):598-605.

Gammon SR, Mehlman CT, Chan W, Heifetz J, Durrett G, Wall EJ. A comparison of thoracolumbosacral orthoses and SpineCor treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients using the Scoliosis Research Society standardized criteria. J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Sep;30(6):531-8.

Quatman CE, Myer GD, Khoury J, Wall EJ, Hewett TE. Sex differences in "weightlifting" injuries presenting to United States emergency rooms. J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Oct;23(7):2061-7 

Myer GD, Quatman CE, Khoury J, Wall EJ, Hewett TE. Youth versus adult "weightlifting" injuries presenting to United States emergency rooms: accidental versus nonaccidental injury mechanisms. J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Oct;23(7):2054-60.

Bylski-Austrow DI, Wall EJ, Glos DL, Ballard ET, Montgomery A, Crawford AH. Spinal hemiepiphysiodesis decreases the size of vertebral growth plate hypertrophic zone and cells. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009 Mar 1;91(3):584-93.

Myer GD, Ford KR, Divine JG, Wall EJ, Kahanov L, Hewett TE. Longitudinal assessment of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury risk factors during maturation in a female athlete: a case report. J Athl Train. 2009 Jan-Feb;44(1):101-9.

Wall EJ, Vourazeris J, Myer GD, Emery KH, Divine JG, Nick TG, Hewett TE. The healing potential of stable juvenile osteochondritis dissecans knee lesions. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008 Dec;90(12):2655-64. 

Lippert WC, Wall EJ. Optimal intramuscular needle-penetration depth. Pediatrics. 2008 Sep;122(3):e556-63. 
 
Wall EJ, Jain V, Vora V, Mehlman CT, Crawford AH. Complications of titanium and stainless steel elastic nail fixation of pediatric femoral fractures. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008 Jun;90(6):1305-13.

Hébert KJ, Laor T, Divine JG, Emery KH, Wall EJ. MRI appearance of chronic stress injury of the iliac crest apophysis in adolescent athletes. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008 Jun;190(6):1487-91.