18 Statistics on Orthopedic Surgeon Specialties

Here are 18 statistics about orthopedic surgeon subspecialty areas of practice based on data from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' 2010 Orthopaedic Surgeon Census.

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1. 39.6 percent of surgeons identified arthroscopy as their area of practice
2. 39 percent identified as adult knee
3. 38 percent identified as sports medicine
4. 29.1 percent identified as adult hip
5. 17.8 percent identified as total joint replacement
6. 17.3 percent identified as hand
7. 16.5 percent identified as shoulder and elbow
8. 12.3 percent identified as adult spine
9. 11.4 percent identified as foot and ankle
10. 10.7 percent identified as trauma
11. 6.5 percent identified as no specialty
12. 4.8 percent identified as non-operative practitioners
13. 4.2 percent identified as pediatric orthopedics
14. 3.3 percent identified as disability or legal orthopedics
15. 2.8 percent identified as pediatric spine
16. 1.9 percent identified as other specialty
17. 1.2 percent identified as rehabilitation/prosthetics/orthotics
18. 0.9 percent identified as orthopedic oncology

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