Joint Boss Ortho
Aaron S. Vaslow, MD · Orthopaedic Surgery

The plan
before the cut.

Military reconstruction surgeon. Engineer by training. The job is not a pretty x-ray. It is a hip or knee that feels like it belongs to the person who walked in.

Adult reconstruction · Direct anterior hip · Robotic knee · Complex salvage

How the work is done

Preparation is the operation.


Hip

Direct anterior THA with a defined exposure, a defined bailout, and stems chosen for the bone in front of you — not the tray that was opened first.

Knee

VELYS robotic TKA aimed at the patient’s phenotype, not a universal 180°. The envelope is measured. Standing deformity is not reconstructed.

Salvage

The cases other orthopaedists call about. Infection, failed graft, destroyed joint. Restore a durable limb, then get out of the way of a life.

For residents and staff: a calculator that names the CPAK phenotype from mLDFA and MPTA and shows why that knee gets that gap curve — not a 180° rectangle.

Phenotype → gap curve

Who is operating

Aaron S. Vaslow, MD


Board-certified orthopaedic surgeon. Army staff. Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University. Residency at Tripler. Deployment with a forward resuscitative surgical team at Al-Asad. Mechanical engineer, Rose-Hulman.

The through-line is the same in a bunker and in an elective room: decide the sequence before the incision, name the stop-points, and do not improvise what should have been a protocol.

In 2028 the uniform comes off. The standard does not.

Contact

If the case is hard, start there.


Referring surgeons and patients: use the address below. This site is a practice brand, not a hospital portal. Privileges and scheduling live at the facility where the case will be done.

contact@jointbossortho.com

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