Dr. Kenneth Merriman

I am a 64+ year old general orthopedist in practice in the same small city for ~35 years 2 grown daughters and 1 wife who is an exercise instructor ( usually after me to be better about it) and 2 grand daughters Finley almost 3 and Audrey who will be 6 next week As far as practice I do a moderate number of total joints (hips and knees with occasional shoulder) and wht ever else that comes along that I feel is within my abilities it is really the general practice of orthopedics i have a significant interest in vitamin D metabolism / biologic orthopedics( meaning platlet rich plasma use and the growing potential for auto derived stem cells) / nonunions and complex fractures / foot and ankle surgery/ geriatric orthopedics osteoporosis For the last 25 years or so I have done some "ring doctoring" for amateur MMA (mixed martial arts) some of you might know it as cage fighting or no holds bared fighting I did some Judo many years ago which is where my interest comes from. With all the fun changes facing the practice of medicine and orthopedics I keep thinking of chucking it in and retiring BUT I still really like dealing with patients on a day to day basis and find most of the problem solving part of it to be a good and interesting challenge so for now I WILL KEEP AT IT