Ricardo E. Colberg
About
Ricardo E. Colberg, MD is a non-surgical sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician at Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Alabama. His clinical focus covers acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries, with particular expertise in diagnostic musculoskeletal sonography, ultrasound-guided injections, regenerative medicine, and minimally invasive ultrasound-guided procedures including percutaneous trigger finger release and De Quervain release. He is affiliated with Ascension St. Vincent's Birmingham and holds board certification from the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation as well as a Registered Musculoskeletal Sonographer credential.
Dr. Colberg serves as an attending physician in the American Sports Medicine Institute Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program and directs the ASMI Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Course and Cadaver Workshop. He also teaches faculty-level courses in ultrasound and regenerative medicine techniques. His peer-reviewed research, spanning 34 publications in journals such as Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, Sports Health, and the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, addresses topics including ulnar collateral ligament assessment, ultrasound-guided pulley and retinaculum releases, and minimally invasive approaches to tendon pathology. He has also contributed chapters to academic textbooks.
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- A Novel Ultrasound Assessment Technique of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament to Account for the Valgus Stress Effect of Gravity on the Medial Elbow.
- Prevalence of Ulnar Nerve Dislocation Among Division I Collegiate Baseball Players.
- Ultrasound-guided microinvasive trigger thumb release with an 18-gauge blade-tipped needle: A case series.
- Is Ulnar Collateral Ligament Strength Proportional to Height and Weight?
- Treatment of Chronic Extensor Carpi Ulnaris Stenosing Tenosynovitis Using Ultrasound-Guided Retinaculum Release: A Case Report.
- Ultrasound-Guided A1 Pulley Release: A Systematic Review.
- Percutaneous microtenotomy using a microdebrider coblation wand for the treatment of lateral epicondylitis: A systematic review.
- A Retrospective Case Series Study on a Minimally Invasive Ultrasound-Guided First Dorsal Compartment Release Technique for Refractory De Quervain Tenosynovitis.
- Clinical and Imaging Outcomes of Plantar Fasciotomy Using Microdebrider Coblation Wand.
- Ultrasound-guided microinvasive trigger finger release technique using an 18-gauge needle with a blade at the tip: A prospective study.
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