Services

Highlands Medical Specialists offers a wide range of medical care from family medicine to orthopedic surgery. Learn more about the services our doctors and healthcare professionals provide:

Family Medicine / Internal Medicine

• Asthma evaluation and treatment
• Laboratory testing, including blood draws
• Comprehensive medical history and physical examination
• Electrocardiogram (EKG) for evaluation of heart function
• Hypertension (high blood pressure) management
• Lacerations (cuts) and minor surgical procedures
• Male impotence evaluation
• Routine annual exams
• Skin Conditions: Eczema, poison oak, rashes , itchy skin, wound infection
• Well women and well men exams
• Acute illnesses
• Pulmonary Function Tests
• Weight management
• Diabetes management and other chronic illness management

Gastroenterology Services

• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Colonoscopy – screening for colorectal cancer, removal of polyps, identify bleeding sites, ablation of bleeding sites, evaluate for causes of diarrhea or change in bowel habits, abnormal findings on other diagnostic test and obtain tissue samples, etc.
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic upper endoscopy- used for diagnosis and treatment of upper intestinal tract diseases, this includes disorders that cause difficulty swallowing and cause upper intestinal tract bleeding.
• Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy tube placements (PEG’s) to allow feeding of patients who are unable to maintain adequate nutritional intake.
• Capsule Endoscopy for evaluation of occult bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and evaluation of diseases of the small intestines.
• Specialty care of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) with pH monitoring, evaluation of esophageal motility and ablative therapy of Barrett’s esophagus.
• Hemorrhoid Banding Management of IBD, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, including infusion therapy with infliximab
• Management of liver diseases including HCV (Hepatitis C)

General Surgery

General surgery encompasses a wide range of procedures including minimally invasive techniques using the da Vinci^® robot. Some of the most common procedures performed by our general surgeon include:

• Gallbladder surgery
• Hernia surgery (inguinal, umbilical, incisional)
• Skin and soft tissue surgery
• Colon surgery
• Small bowel surgery
• Other abdominal surgery
• Thyroid surgery

Orthopedic Services

• Pediatric orthopedic joint replacement surgery
• Total Hip Replacement
• Total Knee Replacement
• Arthroscopic knee and shoulder
• Hand surgery
• Foot and ankle surgery
• Infections
• Metabolic bone diseases
• Sports medicine

Urological Services

• Vasectomy
• Circumcisions
• Cystoscopy
• Urodynamics
• Voiding and sexual dysfunction and urological cancers (bladder, kidney and prostate)
• Kidney stones
• Laparoscopic and robotic surgery