Orthopedic Services in South Mississippi
Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides comprehensive orthopedic care for patients across South Mississippi. With locations in Hattiesburg, Laurel, Brookhaven, Collins, Columbia, and Picayune, our team offers specialized care for injuries, joint pain, spine conditions, sports-related concerns, foot and ankle problems, hand and upper extremity conditions, and workers’ compensation injuries.
Our orthopedic services are designed to help patients find the right care for their condition, whether they need diagnostic imaging, non-surgical treatment, therapy, orthopedic urgent care, or surgical consultation.
Southern Bone & Joint brings together physicians, providers, specialty centers, diagnostic services, physical therapy, and surgical care in one coordinated orthopedic network. This allows patients to access a range of orthopedic services close to home while receiving guidance based on their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment needs.
About The Spine Center
The Spine Center at Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides specialized spine care for patients experiencing back pain, neck pain, spine injuries, and other spine-related conditions. Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, The Spine Center serves patients from across South Mississippi and the surrounding region.
Back and neck pain can affect daily movement, work, sleep, and overall quality of life. The Spine Center focuses on patient education, diagnostic evaluation, non-surgical treatment options, and surgical care when appropriate.
The Spine Center evaluates and treats patients with back pain, neck pain, spine injuries, and related symptoms. Care may include diagnostic testing, non-surgical treatment, therapy, injections, or surgical consultation depending on the patient’s condition and needs.
The team emphasizes conservative treatment options whenever appropriate and works with patients to help them better understand their diagnosis and available treatment options.
Spine Center Services
The Spine Center offers access to several spine-related services and treatment options, including:
- Fellowship-trained spine surgeons
- Spinal injection specialists
- Non-surgical treatment options
- X-ray and MRI diagnostics
- Spine therapy
- Minimally invasive spine surgery when appropriate
- Scoliosis and deformity correction surgery
- Artificial disc replacement surgery
- Cervical disc herniation treatment
- Second opinions for spine conditions
The Spine Center welcomes referrals, appointments, and second opinions for spine-related conditions. Phone: 601.554.7400
The Spine Center Physicians
Patients visiting The Spine Center have access to physicians with experience in spine evaluation, non-surgical treatment planning, spinal injections, and surgical care when appropriate. Each physician profile should link to the provider’s full bio so patients can learn more about their background, specialties, and locations.
The Joint Center
The Joint Center at Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides specialized care for patients experiencing joint pain, arthritis, mobility concerns, and conditions that may require joint replacement. The team focuses on helping patients understand their diagnosis, explore treatment options, and determine the right next step for their condition.
Joint Pain and Arthritis Care
Joint pain and arthritis can affect mobility, work, sleep, and daily activities. Treatment may include diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, medication management, injections, non-surgical care, or joint replacement consultation when appropriate.
Outpatient Joint Replacements
If you are a candidate, certain hip and knee replacement procedures may be performed on an outpatient basis, allowing patients to return home the same day. Outpatient joint replacement may offer a more convenient recovery experience while still providing the specialized orthopedic care and support patients need before and after surgery. The Joint Center team evaluates each patient individually to determine whether outpatient joint replacement is an appropriate option.
Joint Center Services
The Joint Center offers:
- Joint pain evaluation
- Arthritis care
- Hip and knee replacement consultations
- Same-day joint replacement options for appropriate candidates
- Mako SmartRobotics™ for certain hip and knee replacement procedures
- X-ray and MRI diagnostics
- Physical therapy
- Non-surgical treatment options
- Surgical consultation when appropriate
Mako SmartRobotics™
Southern Bone & Joint offers Mako SmartRobotics™ for certain hip and knee replacement procedures. This technology is designed to support surgical planning and assist the surgeon during joint replacement procedures.
Mako SmartRobotics™ may be used for:
- Total hip replacement
- Total knee replacement
- Partial knee replacement
The care team will determine whether Mako SmartRobotics™ is appropriate based on the patient’s condition, anatomy, imaging results, and surgical needs.
Mako SmartRobotics™ for Total Hip Replacement
The Joint Center Physicians
Patients visiting The Joint Center have access to physicians who evaluate and treat joint pain, arthritis, mobility concerns, and conditions that may require hip or knee replacement. Each physician profile should link to the provider’s full bio so patients can learn more about their background, specialties, and locations.
The Sports Medicine Center
The Sports Medicine Center at Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides orthopedic care for athletes, active individuals, and patients with sports-related injuries. The team evaluates and treats injuries involving bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons, helping patients understand their condition and determine the right next step for care.
Sports injuries can happen during school athletics, recreational activities, exercise, work, or everyday movement. Southern Bone & Joint offers diagnostic evaluation, non-surgical treatment options, therapy referrals, and surgical consultation when appropriate.
Sports Injury Care
The Sports Medicine Center treats a range of sports-related orthopedic concerns, including sprains, strains, fractures, joint pain, ligament injuries, tendon injuries, muscle injuries, and overuse conditions.
Care may include X-ray or MRI diagnostics, physical therapy, bracing, injections, activity modification, or surgical consultation depending on the injury and the patient’s goals.
Sports Medicine Services
The Sports Medicine Center offers access to services and treatment options such as:
- Sports injury evaluation
- Sprain and strain care
- Fracture evaluation
- Joint pain treatment
- Ligament and tendon injury care
- Overuse injury care
- X-ray and MRI diagnostics
- Physical therapy referrals
- Non-surgical treatment options
- Surgical consultation when appropriate
Care for Local Athletes
Southern Bone & Joint is proud to serve as team doctors for The University of Southern Mississippi and Pearl River Community College. The team also supports several local high schools throughout the region, helping athletes access orthopedic and sports medicine care when injuries happen on and off the field.
Sports Medicine Center Physicians
Patients visiting The Sports Medicine Center have access to physicians who evaluate and treat sports-related injuries, joint pain, overuse conditions, and orthopedic concerns affecting athletes and active individuals. Each physician profile should link to the provider’s full bio so patients can learn more about their background, specialties, and locations.
The Foot & Ankle Center
The Foot & Ankle Center at Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides orthopedic care for patients experiencing foot pain, ankle pain, injuries, fractures, arthritis, tendon concerns, and mobility issues. Foot and ankle problems can affect walking, balance, work, exercise, and everyday activities, making early evaluation and treatment important.
The team helps patients understand the cause of their symptoms and determine the right next step for care. Treatment may include diagnostic imaging, non-surgical care, physical therapy, bracing, injections, or surgical consultation when appropriate.
Foot and Ankle Conditions Treated
The Foot & Ankle Center evaluates and treats a range of orthopedic concerns involving the foot, ankle, and lower extremity.
Common concerns may include:
- Foot pain
- Ankle pain
- Sprains and strains
- Fractures
- Arthritis
- Tendon injuries
- Ligament injuries
- Heel pain
- Overuse injuries
- Sports-related foot or ankle injuries
- Mobility concerns
Foot and Ankle Services
The Foot & Ankle Center offers access to services and treatment options such as:
- Foot and ankle injury evaluation
- X-ray and MRI diagnostics
- Non-surgical treatment options
- Physical therapy referrals
- Bracing or support recommendations
- Fracture care
- Arthritis care
- Sports injury care
- Surgical consultation when appropriate
When to See a Foot and Ankle Specialist
Patients may benefit from seeing a foot and ankle specialist when pain, swelling, instability, limited movement, or difficulty walking does not improve or begins interfering with daily activities. A specialist can help determine whether symptoms are related to an injury, arthritis, tendon concern, fracture, or another orthopedic condition.
Foot & Ankle Center Physicians
Patients visiting The Foot & Ankle Center have access to physicians who evaluate and treat foot pain, ankle pain, injuries, fractures, arthritis, tendon concerns, and mobility issues. Each physician profile should link to the provider’s full bio so patients can learn more about their background, specialties, and locations.
Hand and Upper Extremity Center
The Hand and Upper Extremity Center at Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides orthopedic care for patients experiencing pain, injuries, weakness, numbness, or limited movement involving the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, and arm.
Upper extremity conditions can affect work, daily tasks, lifting, gripping, reaching, sports, and overall mobility. The team helps patients identify the cause of their symptoms and determine the right next step for care.
Treatment may include diagnostic imaging, non-surgical treatment, injections, therapy, bracing, or surgical consultation when appropriate.
Hand, Wrist, Elbow, Shoulder, and Arm Care
The Upper Extremity Center evaluates and treats a range of orthopedic concerns affecting the upper body. These conditions may be caused by injury, arthritis, overuse, nerve compression, sports activity, work-related strain, or everyday wear and tear.
Common concerns may include:
- Hand pain
- Wrist pain
- Elbow pain
- Shoulder pain
- Arm injuries
- Fractures
- Arthritis
- Tendon injuries
- Ligament injuries
- Nerve-related symptoms
- Overuse injuries
- Limited range of motion
- Sports-related upper extremity injuries
Upper Extremity Services
The Upper Extremity Center offers access to services and treatment options such as:
- Hand and wrist evaluation
- Shoulder and elbow evaluation
- X-ray and MRI diagnostics
- Non-surgical treatment options
- Physical therapy referrals
- Bracing or support recommendations
- Injection options when appropriate
- Fracture care
- Arthritis care
- Sports injury care
- Surgical consultation when appropriate
When to See an Upper Extremity Specialist
Patients may benefit from seeing an upper extremity specialist when pain, weakness, numbness, swelling, limited mobility, or difficulty using the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, or arm begins interfering with daily life.
A specialist can help determine whether symptoms are related to an injury, arthritis, tendon concern, nerve condition, fracture, or another orthopedic issue.
Upper Extremity Center Physicians
Patients visiting The Upper Extremity Center have access to physicians who evaluate and treat orthopedic conditions involving the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, and arm. Each physician profile should link to the provider’s full bio so patients can learn more about their background, specialties, and locations.
Workers’ Compensation Orthopedic Care
Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. provides orthopedic care for work-related injuries and workers’ compensation cases across South Mississippi. Our goal is to help injured workers receive timely evaluation, appropriate treatment, and clear communication throughout the care process.
With physicians, diagnostic services, rehabilitation therapists, urgent care, and pharmacy services available through one orthopedic network, Southern Bone & Joint helps support a continuum of care from injury evaluation through rehabilitation and return-to-work planning.
Care for Work-Related Orthopedic Injuries
Work-related orthopedic injuries can affect the back, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees, ankles, feet, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joints. Southern Bone & Joint works with injured workers, employers, insurance adjusters, and case managers to support prompt evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and communication.
Care may include diagnostic imaging, therapy, orthopedic urgent care, physician evaluation, surgical consultation when appropriate, and return-to-work recommendations based on the patient’s condition and job demands.
Services Include
Workers’ compensation services may include:
- Same-day access to physicians following injury when available
- Prompt evaluation
- Timely diagnostics, including X-ray and MRI
- Surgical intervention when appropriate
- Therapeutic rehabilitation
- Individualized therapy
- Work conditioning
- Functional capacity evaluations
- Return-to-work evaluations
- Pre-offer and post-offer assessments
- Job site analysis
- Ergonomics
- Injury prevention
- Job description development
- Orthopedic urgent care in Hattiesburg and Laurel
Coordinated Communication
Workers’ compensation cases often require communication between multiple parties. Southern Bone & Joint is committed to maintaining clear communication with injured workers, employers, insurance adjusters, case managers, and referring providers throughout the process.
This helps ensure that each party understands the treatment plan, diagnostic findings, work status, and return-to-work recommendations when available.
Orthopedic Urgent Care for Work Injuries
Southern Bone & Joint offers orthopedic urgent care in Hattiesburg and Laurel for injuries that need prompt attention. This may be helpful for work-related sprains, strains, fractures, muscle or joint pain, back trauma, and other orthopedic injuries that are not life-threatening emergencies.
Hattiesburg Orthopedic Urgent Care
Monday-Friday: 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Phone: 601.475.HURT (4878)
Laurel Orthopedic Urgent Care
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Phone: 601.682.1760
Appointments and On-Site Visits
Contact Southern Bone & Joint for a workers’ compensation appointment or to schedule an on-site visit.
Phone: 601.554.7454 or 601.554.7448
Pharmacy
Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A. offers in-house pharmacy services at the main Hattiesburg location to support patient convenience and continuity of care. The pharmacy provides prescription refills and pharmacy support for patients of Southern Bone & Joint and members of the surrounding community.
Located inside the main office at 3688 Veterans Memorial Drive in Hattiesburg, the pharmacy is available to help patients access prescribed medications connected to their care.
Convenient Prescription Refills
Southern Bone & Joint’s pharmacy provides convenient prescription refills for patients of Southern Bone & Joint and the general public. Prescriptions can be filled at the pharmacy, and patients may contact the pharmacy directly for refill questions.
Patients may also have an outside prescription transferred to the Southern Bone & Joint pharmacy by calling another pharmacy to request the transfer or contacting their physician to request renewals and refills.
Pharmacy Hours
Monday through Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Pharmacy Support for Orthopedic Patients
Having pharmacy services available at the main Hattiesburg location can help make care more convenient for orthopedic patients. Patients may be able to access certain prescribed medications after an appointment, procedure, or treatment plan without needing to make an additional stop.
Tommy Woo, R.Ph.
Tommy Woo, a native of Isola, is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the community retail setting, as well as critical care and long-term care.
Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
Southern Bone & Joint offers high-quality durable medical equipment (DME) which includes crutches, splints, braces, walking boots and cold therapy devices. Southern Bone & Joint DME specialists are certified orthotic fitters and have extensive knowledge of proper fitting techniques and the role orthopedic medical equipment plays in recovery. DME products are more than just tools — they are an integral part of helping patients achieve the best possible outcomes during their recovery. Southern Bone & Joint DME is located on the first floor.