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Dr.
James Cox is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with special
interests and training in joint replacement surgery and shoulder
surgery. He is qualified to treat a wide variety of musculoskeletal
injuries and diseases. His scope of practice ranges from treatment
of arthritis to pediatric orthopedics, to occupational and sports
medicine.
Dr.
Cox is a
West Virginia
native, born in
Logan
. He makes his home in the same
Teays
Valley
community in which he practices. His children attend local Christian
schools, and his wife, Susan, is a registered nurse and native of
Barboursville. Community interests are strong in his practice.
He
regularly provides orthopedic care to local school athletic
programs, sponsorship for area sports teams, and community seminars
on important topics such as arthritis and osteoporosis. He has
hospital privileges at our local hospital,
CAMC
Teays
Valley
Hospital
, as well as
Cabell
Huntington
Hospital
in
Huntington
,
WV
. He is often the orthopedic surgeon on emergency call at these
facilities and provides quality, caring orthopedic treatment to
those in need.
Dr.
Cox excelled in his medical education and clinical training. He
finished second in his medical class at the West Virginia School of
Osteopathic Medicine in 1993. He finished an internship program at
Logan
General
Hospital
with honors, and then completed his orthopedic surgery residency at
Ohio
University
in
Dayton
,
OH
.
Dr.
Cox finished orthopedic board certification examinations in the
upper echelon, and now serves as an examiner for new candidates for
orthopedic board certification. He remains active in academics,
regularly providing orthopedic lectures at state medical society
meetings, physician special interest meetings and community
functions. He provides clinical training to interns, as well as
medical, nursing, surgical technology, physician assistant,
EMS
and physical therapy students.
Dr.
Cox brings much of the latest knowledge in the field of orthopedics
to
Teays
Valley
and the surrounding communities. He is certified in three of the
most recent advances in orthopedic surgery: cartilage replacement
surgery, minimal incision total hip and knee replacement surgery,
and unicompartmental total knee replacement surgery. Additionally,
arthroscopic surgeries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee and ankle
are primary features of his practice.
Teays
Valley
Hospital
boasts what may be the most technologically advanced arthroscopic
surgery suite in the state of
West Virginia
. Minimally invasive joint surgery can be performed here with
ultra-high resolution digital cameras displaying crystal clear
images on plasma screens.
Look
for Dr. Cox in the GTMA complex in the heart of
Teays
Valley
. This campus is further evidence of his commitment to this area,
providing not only quality orthopedic care, but also economic
support to the community.
Dr.
Cox’s commitment to helping those in need extends well beyond the
Teays
Valley
area. Several times a
year he can be found traveling with the Hanna Project. He has
completed missions work providing care to those in need around the
world in places like Ivory Coast, Africa and teaching medical
techniques to physicians in underserved areas such as
Morocco.
Dr.
Cox also welcomes friends, family and patients in need of orthopedic
care from
Logan
and the southern part of the state.
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