General Info

Dr. LaPrade is passionate about healthy knees. He has been studying the knee joint along with providing orthopedic knee surgery and expert care for more than 15 years. Specializing in complex and traumatic knee injuries involving the posterolateral corner, as well as other areas of the knee, Dr. LaPrades experience is unparalleled in accurately diagnosing and treating compound, multifaceted knee injuries. Robert F. LaPrade MD, PhD is a complex orthopaedic knee and sports medicine surgeon at Twin Cities Orthopedics in both the Edina and Eagan Minnesota Clinics and Surgery Centers. He is also the Sports Medicine Committee Chair for the International Society for Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He is also on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) and Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (KSSTA). Dr. LaPrade is known as one of the few specialists with extended expertise in the three main areas of medicine: expert clinical expertise, a lauded researcher, and an outstanding educator. Dr. LaPrade is known as a super specialized clinician scientist who has utilized his vast and comprehensive research on sports medicine injuries to improve patient care and invent new ways to treat knee problems. Many of the surgeries that he has invented have been performed worldwide and are recognized as the Gold Standard for the treatment of many complex knee surgeries. Dr. LaPrade was recognized internationally as an outstanding teacher. His Vail International Complex Knee Course was considered to be the top international complex knee course and he has hosted several hundred sports surgeons who have observed his practice in Vail to learn his clinical exam and surgical techniques.