Profiles
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 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 from 2000 to 2005 was 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 fifteen 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.
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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 2010, two of my sculptures were displayed at the AAOS meeting in New Orleans for the "Wounded in Action" exhibit regarding military injuries.
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 seventh printing. Heal Your Knees, also with Huey, was published by M. Evans Publishers in 2004 and is in its sixth printing in the United States and has been published in Spain.
In 2007, Dr. Klapper made his dream come true of owning a compound on Oahu, Hawaii. His two properties are in the slopes of the Diamond Head Crater overlooking his favorite surf break.
In 2008, Dr. Klapper began providing commentary for ESPN Radio on the World Champion Lakers and their injuries. Dr. Klapper has been a guest on the "Dr. Oz" show on Oprah Radio.
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.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Huey water trained many of the world's top athletes in track and field, basketball, football, ice hockey, and tennis. She hosted a radio sports show for KCRW and National Public Radio, worked for NBC at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and served as the UCLA track and field water training coach. She designed therapy swimming pools and water therapy protocols for hospitals and appeared internationally on TV and radio talk shows as a world authority on water training. She worked in film, coaching underwater stunts and working with injured actors and stuntmen who needed to recover quickly for their film shoots.
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 thirteenth printing, Waterpower has been published in German and Spanish 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, 1999) and Heal Your Knees also with Klapper (M. Evans, 2004).
Since 1983, Lynda Huey has cross-trained and rehabilitated elite athletes, TV journalists, and entertainers including Emeka Okafor, Paula Abdul, Ben Stiller, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carl Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Sinbad, Cybill Shepherd, Gayle Anderson, Dr. Bruce Hensel, and Wilt Chamberlain. It was Wilt who, following hip arthroscopy, introduced Lynda to Dr. Robert Klapper as "the best 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 up to five hundred patients a week in their gym and newly-renovated, 92-degree indoor pool in West Los Angeles as well as up to 100 patients per week in the Jodie Foster Aquatic Pavilion on the Motion Picture & Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills, California.
