Samuel G. Dellenbaugh, MD

About Dr. Dellenbaugh

Dr. Samuel G. Dellenbaugh is a board-certified Orthopedic surgeon specializing in the treatment of injuries and deformities of the foot and ankle. He performs all types of foot and ankle procedures including total ankle replacement, minimally invasive arthroscopic procedures, ligament and tendon reconstructions, and all types of bunion and toe procedures.

Dr. Dellenbaugh was raised in New Jersey, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1996. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He attended the US Army Field Artillery Officer Basic Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and the US Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia before joining the First Armored Division in Baumholder, Germany in 1997. While on active duty, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of Operation Joint Guard/Joint Forge to support the Dayton Peace Accords. He left active military service in 2000 and returned to the United States.

Dr. Dellenbaugh earned his medical degree in 2007 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In 2012 he completed his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Albany Medical Center. Following residency he completed a foot and ankle fellowship at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey Pennsylvania.

Dr. Dellenbaugh is the only orthopedic surgeon in the Capital District who performs Lapiplasty Three Dimensional Bunion Correction Surgery. This is the first and only procedure specifically developed to correct all three dimensions of the bunion deformity at the root of the problem. The entire misaligned bone is precisely repositioned back into a normal three dimensional alignment. Dr Dellenbaugh is a Centurion center in the performance of this procedure having done this procedure over two hundred times. He also is well versed in the Adductoplasty produre, which addresses more severe bunions with associated metatarsus adductus.

Dr. Dellenbaugh treats many athletic injuries through modern, minimally invasive techniques. Patients with ruptured Achilles tendons can have their injuries fixed through a small incision using an Arthrex midsubstance speedbridge technique, which has been shown to have a stronger repair than a direct suture repair and allows earlier return to activity. For patients with ankle instability or recurrent sprains, these ligaments can be repaired either completely arthroscopically or through less than a one inch incision.

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