Christopher J Tucker, MD

Excited to be embarking on the next chapter in my career in Texas 🐂🇺🇸! Couldn’t have asked for a more welcoming and supportive group than at @TSAOG_Ortho ! #OrthoTwitter #SportsMedicine

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything." Let this story reach more hearts.... Credit: Mary Nelson

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🚨PODCAST ALERT🚨 In our newest episode -- the first one of September -- Drs. Slone and Musahl discuss the latest International Consensus Statement on lateral extra-articular procedures (LEAPs): ow.ly/2ofz50WTBIc #KneeSurgery #LET #SportsMedicine #Podcasts #ACLSurgery

@ted_ryce Great thread Ted!

Nobody warns you about this when you start lifting weights consistently after 40. Coming from a coach who has been doing this for 25+ years.

@marykmulcaheymd @ABOSortho @LoyolaOrthoRes @dlaport1 @AAOS1 @aoa1887 @aossm1972 @DrMihoTanaka Way to give back Mary. Our profession is strengthened by our ability to evaluate and police our own ranks

I was honored to serve as an Examiner for the Orthopaedic Surgery Oral Board Exam! It's an incredibly gratifying way to give back to our profession! Congratulations to the 800+ orthopaedic surgeons who took the exam! Now go celebrate! #orthotwitter @ABOSortho @LoyolaOrthoRes

Listen in to a new episode of the #ArthroscopyPodcast as we transition from Dr. Lubowitz to Dr. Rossi as our Editor-in-Chief @ChrisTuckerMD

@ArthroscopyJ @GioMedina_MD @DocMatzkin We gotta talk about this one on the @ArthroscopyJ Podcast @DocMatzkin @GioMedina_MD !!

No Clinically Significant Differences in Outcomes After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction When Comparing Quadriceps, Bone–Patellar Tendon–Bone, and Hamstring Autografts of 9 mm or Greater @GioMedina_MD @docmatzkin ow.ly/omkO50W5TGF

@KarenlperryK Looks amazing! I love seeing your success stories. So many little babies blessed with your touch

Meet John Calvin - an incredibly handsome one year old Domestic Shorthaired Cat who presented to us with an acute onset non-weight bearing right thoracic limb lameness after a presumed, but unwitnessed, trauma. Radiographs showed a mildly comminuted distal diaphyseal humeral fracture with fissures propagating proximally. We planned stabilization using a medially placed 2.0mm locking compression plate. Cats have some anatomical differences in comparison to dogs in this area. While the supratrochlear foramen is imperforate in cats, they do have a supracondylar foramen in the medial cortex through which the brachial artery and median nerve traverse. In cases where this foramen is intact, medial plate placement may risk compression of this neurovascular bundle and this was the case for John Calvin. So - we elected to open the foramen using rongeurs, which freed the bundle and allowed us to move it away from the footprint of the plate. This can be a really simple technique allowing optimal plate and screw placement without any impingement of neurovascular structures. John Calvin was weight bearing the day after surgery and headed home for, what we hope, will be an uneventful recovery! ❤️‍🩹

Photo called "Into the Jaws of Death" taken on this day in 1944. 36 men, on the initial storming into the water at Omaha Beach in Normandy. 100 pound backpacks. Rough seas. Germans shooting from bluffs on high. The sacrifice is hard to fathom. For those that battled, THANK YOU.

Today is a blessing because of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf Pray for their families and loved ones left behind that we may never forget. So many friends & classmates are heroes, today and always. #Class2000 #WithHonorInHand #MemorialDay2025 #TK

🚨 🚨EPISODE 297 : Check out the latest Arthroscopy Podcast exploring results at time zero of primary ACL repair in the restoration of anterior tibial translation @DiFeliceMD @christuckermd

Arthroscopy to go! Catch up on the latest buzz in sports medicine during your commute with the Arthroscopy podcast. Episode 295 is available on your favorite streaming platform! @christuckermd doi.org/10.1016/j.arth…

Your Monday morning commute is the perfect time to check out our latest podcast! @nikhilvermamd discusses SLAP repair and biceps tenodesis in the overhead athlete. @ChrisTuckerMD #sportsmedicine #overheadathlete #arthroscopypodcast

Learn about Anchor Arthropathy after shoulder instability surgery… ➡️ what is it? ➡️ how do you approach it? ➡️ does it get better? @ArthroscopyJ Podcast! @AANAORG @TSAOG_Ortho

Check out our latest episode of the @ArthroscopyJ Podcast!

🚨Podcast Alert🚨 Episode 290: Root Repair Has Superior Radiological and Clinical Outcomes Than Partial Meniscectomy and Non-Operative Treatment in The Management of Meniscus Root Tears: A Systematic Review @DrKrych @blauMD @ChrisTuckerMD

Keep up with the latest in surgical developments with the @ArthroscopyJ Podcast!

@FixnBones @Deer_Valley Enjoy a few runs for the rest of us!

#HappyWednesday Another tough day…..😉 @Deer_Valley

Army Baseball travel is DIFFERENT 😮 (via @ArmyWP_Baseball)

@NuelleSportsMD Great tip. For those not noticing the subtlety in the 2nd video, also helpful to always tap the screwdriver in with mallet first then turn a fraction of a turn FORWARD first, before backing the screw out 👍🏻🪛

ACL Friday! Pearl for removing old hardware: use a k-wire to core out bone in & around the screw. A drill or burr can leave metal shavings in the joint, but a k-wire is smooth and works well.