Dr. Alex Meininger

01/26/2026

✈️ • FULFILLED • I just wrapped an incredible few days with brilliant colleagues at the 2026 Global Knee Summit in

One of the greatest privileges of our specialty is the opportunity to learn from surgeons . The conversations - whether debating PCL reconstruction techniques between sessions or approaches to complex cartilage cases over dinner - are what make these gatherings invaluable.

The best ideas don’t come from isolation. They come from , , and the willingness to our own assumptions. Walking away energized by what this community is doing to advance knee care.

To everyone I connected with - let’s keep the conversation going. The real work starts when we get back to our ORs and apply what we’ve learned for our patients. Safe travels and good luck with weather, etc!

01/23/2026

📣 • Honored to present “PCL Techniques: An Update in 2026” at the Global Knee Summit in 🇦🇪 !

Great to share insights on posterior cruciate reconstruction and management with colleagues from around the world at this premier orthopedic conference. The innovation and collaboration in and trauma care continues to push our field forward.

Thank you to Kevin Plancher, MD, MPH, FAOA, FAAOS, FACS and fellow panelists for the opportunity to contribute to advancing knee surgery techniques.

01/23/2026

🐪• FRESH START • Day 1 at the knee summkt in was an exciting experience!

debates on , and complex knee.

Arthroplasty debates on tourniquets, and antibiotic stewardship.

Live knee replacement surgery with .neyret01
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And talks on fractures about the knee from and Mo Refaat.

What a great day! I can’t wait for what’s in store tomorrow!

01/23/2026

🐪• FRESH START • Day 1 at the Global Knee Summit in was an exciting experience!

debates on , and complex knee.

Arthroplasty debates on tourniquets, and antibiotic stewardship.

Live knee replacement surgery with Philippe Neyret .neyret01 and ortho

And talks on fractures about the knee from and Refaat.

What a great day! I can’t wait for what’s in store tomorrow!

01/22/2026

🎓• LEADERSHIP • The Global Knee Summit kicks off here in tomorrow and I am thrilled to be involved.

I am grateful to for the opportunity to participate, share my experience and takeaway even more.

I have lectures on , and reconstructions.

And I will participate in a panel on knee injuries.

This is going to be exciting!

01/21/2026

🗞️ • BREAKING NEWS • I am excited to be an invited contributor to Orthopedics Today and provide my techniques for reconstructive surgery using tendon.

Read our techniques here: https://tinyurl.com/ypysatkz

We were early adopters in 2015 and now we simply blink and we have 10-year results including .

Quadriceps tendon ACL reconstruction is a robust solution with a track record of success. And we can prove it.

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12/19/2025

🗞️ • BREAKING NEWS! • published highlights from our 2025 World Congress presentation. In it we discussed our results with MACI for chondral defects of the knee.

We summarized our single-surgeon outcomes database for results in patients who had cartilage repair surgery by transplanting their own cells.

Our group is one of the first series of published results in private practice and showed not only a high level of satisfaction, but a high rate of return to sports.

Including downhill, backcountry and nordic skiing, mountain biking, ultra-running, gymnastics, and off-road motorcycling.

11/17/2025

11/16/2025

🥇• 🏆 • A HUGE shoutout to our patient Lindsey for her 1st Place finish in the 2025 UCI Boulder Cup cyclocross race yesterday!

Lindsey has been a stoic athlete since recovering from in 2022!

We are proud to be in your Team, Lindsey! Keep charging.


Steamboat Orthopaedic & Spine Institute Steamboat Surgery Center UCHealth American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Arthroscopy Association of North America Cyclocross Magazine UCI Cyclo-cross Valmont Bike Park

11/12/2025

🪚 • • One of my is the standard surgical ruler, or scale. Why isn’t the “0” denoted at the end of the ruler? Why do I have to account for 2 or 3 extra millimeters?

My usual preference card request is the “ruler cut to zeros” but this subtle nuance doesn’t always resonate.

Today I had the pleasure during cartilage repair surgery at the Steamboat Surgery Center to have our tenured Surgical Technologist Calen Howe.

The ruler was “cut to zero.”

The small things add up. When you have a team of consistent staff members, like a physician owned Ambulatory Surgery Center, efficiencies amplify.

Thanks Calen for your attention to detail and your hard work.

“Another great day.”

Steamboat Orthopaedic & Spine Institute | UCHealth | Plancher, Kevin D | Raymond Kim MD | Jonathan L Glashow MD | Nate, Cafferky MD | Gloria Beim | Foran, Jared | Jeremy Kinder, MD | Eric McCarty MD

11/04/2025

🗞️ • • We love hearing from our patients! Stefan is 2.5 years out from reconstruction with medial & lateral . He returned these photos on the dirt bike, mountain bike.

“Feeling solid on the moto, skiing, biking, kneeling, squatting and so on!”

Congratulations Stefan! We are proud to be on your Team!

tendon ACL grafts are proved to yield a high rate of return to sports and a low reinjury rate. That’s why they have been our preferred since 2015.

10/21/2025

🗞️• • We are proud to recognize Heidi Mueller for her work as the Research Coordinator for the as a participating site in the BEAR ACL Registry.

The registry published its first peer-reviewed paper in the journal
Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology & Arthroscopy (KSSTA) and SOSI was a large contributor to the first 100-patients.

Heidi was instrumental in coordinating the project, and managing the patients, follow-up timelines and data.

This paper is the first clinical study published at SOSI since its inception in 2018.

And we presented the article’s cover page in a plaque to Heidi today. Congratulations 🎉🎊🍾