- My name is Dr. Wayne Luchetti.
I'm an orthopedic surgeon
specializing in sports medicine
and joint replacement.
I currently see patients on our Bethlehem campus
on Schoenersville Road.
I see patients in Wind Gap.
And I see patients in our Easton office.
Essentially I was involved in sports my entire life.
Senior year in high school
I blew out my right knee.
And I went through reconstructive surgery,
developed a very good relationship
with my orthopedic surgeon,
and just really kind of fell in love
with the idea of taking care of athletes.
I went to undergraduate
at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
And then I went to medical school
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
I stayed at the University of Pennsylvania
for my general surgery internship.
And then I did a four-year orthopedic surgery residency
at the University of Pennsylvania.
And then I switched it up a bit
and moved to the west coast.
I did a full year of sports medicine training
and a fellowship in knee replacement surgery
in Long Beach, California.
My main focus of my practice predominantly
is sports medicine,
taking care of young athletes.
They're great to treat.
They want to get better.
And they want to be back in the field as soon as possible.
So it's really kind of fun
being able to change their lives after a major injury
and getting them back to what they can do.
And then the other area of my practice
has kind of evolved into more degenerative type conditions
because they're very similar to my younger patients
in that they come in the office,
they can barely walk,
and taking them through a joint replacement surgery
you can really change their life and get them back
to doing what they really want to do.
I was actually in another practice
in Virginia before I moved here.
And I can't say enough about Coordinated Health.
It's really an amazing setup.
We offer everything from, you know,
foot specialists to shoulder and knee specialists.
And now we've taken that a further step
to really focus on women's health.
We have a full service OBGYN.
And now cardiology, we've brought them on board.
So it's really an integrated approach to medicine.
Our information systems, our computers
are set up in that if someone comes in for,
you know, a knee problem
but they were seen last week for their back,
without even having to make a phone call
I can, you know, pull up their note on the computer
and really kind of get a sense
and treat the whole patient.
I love taking patients to our hospital.
They're not going to get better nursing.
I've been around quite...
and I don't look that old,
but I've been around a while.
And the hospital that we've developed
is really second to none in how we approach patients.
It's all about the quality of care
and the patient experience.
And I think we just do a fantastic job.
I have three young girls.
They keep me very busy.
They play soccer and volleyball
and they're swimmers,
so not a lot of testosterone in my house.
None of them play football.
So it's kind of my football fix, Lehigh and Nazareth.
Take my kids out.
They hang out with me on the sideline.
You know, it's giving back to the community certainly.
But I think Lehigh,
what I've noticed as I continue to age
and the kids are always 18 to 21 years old,
they don't age, I age.
But I think it kind of keeps me young.
And I really, I really love it.
A perfect day for me is the operating room.
You know, surgeons are funny creatures,
especially orthopedic surgeons
because every few months
there's a new kind of device out.
The learning curve never ends.
You're constantly learning new things
and trying new techniques.
And the operating room is just,
I find it so challenging
yet at the same time really relaxing.
I just, I love it.
I love looking at a perfect x-ray
that I put a perfect knee replacement in
or a perfect hip replacement.
It's just so gratifying.
And when I tell my tell patients
they should really focus on three things
and that is core strength
and flexibility.
Flexibility, flexibility,
stretching, stretching, stretching.
I like my patients to back off the high impact stuff,
focus more on the low impact things
like cycling, swimming, yoga is huge.
Some of the most in shape patients I see
in their 60s and 70s do a lot of yoga.
I try and treat every patient like they're my family member,
whether it's, you know, an older Medicare patient,
I really try and treat them like they're my mom or my dad.
And if it's a young, younger 40-year-old like myself,
I try and treat them like my brother.
I just want my patients to be happy.