Robert Klapper, M.D.
8737 Beverly Blvd.
Suite 303
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310/659-6889
Fax: 310/ 657-3841


Dr. Klapper likes to tell his patients: "My father was a carpenter, my mother was a nurse, so I was destined to become an orthopaedic surgeon. The most important thing my father taught me was 'measure twice, cut once.' It comes in handy every day that I'm in the operating room."

This pleasant, self-effacing bedside manner fits comfortably with Dr. Klapper’s medical training and experience. His undergraduate degree in art history was from Columbia University, followed by medical school at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. An internship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was followed by a residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, then a fellowship in arthritis and implant surgery at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic in Los Angeles. He is currently Co-Director of the Joint Replacement Institute as well as the Clinical Chief of Orthopedics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Klapper’s bold, visionary research led to nine patents on instruments surgeons use world-wide to do revision hip surgery.

He has written articles for Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and other publications, and was recently named orthopedic technical advisor to the TV series "ER." Of this role Dr. Klapper writes, "We have to work harder at letting people know what we do as surgeons."

For the past five summers, Dr. Klapper has sculpted in a small outdoor studio in Carrara, Italy, less a mile away from the quarry where Michelangelo got his stones for the Pieta, Moses, and David.

In 2000, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons held an art competition for their surgeons. Out of 1600 entries, Dr. Klapper’s version of The Pieta (photo top right, above) won the President’s Award.

In 2001, Dr. Klapper was selected by his colleagues to be included in the book Top Doctors.

Dr. Klapper wrote Heal Your Hips with Lynda Huey, M.S., which was published in 1999 by John Wiley & Sons. It is currently in its third printing. Heal Your Knees, also with Huey, will be published by M. Evans Publishers in 2004.

Lynda Huey, M.S.
Complete PT Pool & Land Physical Therapy
3283 Motor Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310/845-9690
Fax: 310/845-9691


Ms. Huey starred as a sprinter at San Jose State University, earned a bachelor's and a master's degree, coached track and field and volleyball at several universities, and wrote her autobiography, A Running Start (New York Times Book Company) before she was thirty. Her second book, The Waterpower Workout (New American Library), resulted from her pioneering work in developing water exercises for fitness and rehabilitation of athletic injuries; and her third book, The Complete Waterpower Workout Book (Random House) details advanced programs for fitness enthusiasts, for dancers, Olympic gold medalists, and postsurgical patients. In its seventh printing, Waterpower has been published in German and is the best-selling book in the field of water exercise and water therapy. Huey wrote Heal Your Hips with Dr. Klapper (John Wiley & Sons) and is writing Heal Your Knees also with Klapper, to be published in 2004 by M. Evans.


Since 1983, Lynda Huey has cross-trained and rehabilitated elite athletes and entertainers including Paula Abdul, Gail Devers, Ben Stiller, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Anne Bancroft, Cybill Shepherd, Sinbad, Barbra Streisand, Carl Lewis, Anne Bancroft, Farrah Fawcett, Wilt Chamberlain, and others. It was Wilt who, following hip surgery, introduced Lynda to Dr. Robert Klapper as "the most knowledgeable water trainer in the world."

In the early 1990s, Ms. Huey pioneered the use of pool therapy in the physical therapy profession and today CompletePT Pool & Land Physical Therapy treats over two-hundred patients per week in their 92-degree indoor pool in West Los Angeles.