Richard Jones, M.D.
Dr. Richard B. Jones is a native of North Carolina. He is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery. He has an undergraduate degree and was a four-year letterman in football at Lenoir Rhyne College. He also has a medical degree from East Carolina University. He completed his orthopedic surgery training at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis Tennessee, which is the oldest orthopedic training program in the country. Dr. Jones completed a one-year sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. There he participated in research involving Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction of the knee. During that time, Dr. Jones was the team physician for Baldwin Wallace College and an assistant with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association, Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball Team, Cleveland Rockers of the Women's National Basketball Association, and the Barons Hockey. Upon returning to North Carolina, Dr. Jones served as a team physician for Western Carolina University for two years and is now a consultant for the team.
Dr. Jones specializes in arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery of the shoulder and knee as well as general orthopedics. He has special expertise in Western North Carolina in arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, shoulder replacement and reverse shoulder replacement. Dr. Jones also has expertise in anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction of the knee. He has taught numerous courses to other orthopedic surgeons on a national and international level.
Articles Written by Dr. Richard B. Jones
ACL Graft Choice
Hiking Injuries
Protecting your Youth League Pitcher
Rotator Cuff
Shoulder Pain and the Rotator Cuff
Skiing