Dr. Eskew Returns to the Upstate of South Carolina
If you have felt a shoulder give way reaching overhead, heard a pop in your knee on a Saturday morning, or watched your son grab his elbow in the seventh inning, you know the pain is only half of it. The uncertainty is worse. You do not know how bad it is, who to see, or whether you are going to get back to what you love.
That is the problem I came home to help solve.
Coming back to where it started
I trained as an orthopedic surgery resident here in Greenville. This is where I learned to operate, and where I came to understand what people in the Upstate actually want from a doctor. A straight answer and a plan.
From here I went to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City for a fellowship in sports medicine, where I served as Administrative Chief Fellow and cared for athletes with the New York Mets and St. John's University men's basketball. A year at HSS means seeing the shoulders, elbows, and knees that other surgeons send away. Complex instability. Failed rotator cuff repairs. Revision Tommy John surgery.
Where I am now
I see patients with Prisma Health's Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas at the Patewood and Laurens campuses, and I teach as an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. I also serve as team physician for Presbyterian College athletics and the Hub City Spartanburgers.
The same knowledge that gets a college pitcher back on the mound gets a 46 year old warehouse manager back to work without pain. The tissue does not know who it belongs to. What changes is the plan we build around it.
What I treat
Rotator cuff tears and shoulder impingement
Shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff arthropathy
Shoulder instability, dislocations, and revision stabilization
Labral and SLAP tears in overhead and throwing athletes
UCL injuries and Tommy John surgery
ACL, MCL, and meniscus tears
Complex and revision shoulder and elbow surgery
A good portion of what comes through my door does not need an operation at all. My job is to tell you which category you are in, honestly, whether or not it ends with me in the operating room.
How we get started
Request an appointment. Bring any imaging or records you already have.
Get a real diagnosis. We will examine you, review your imaging together, and put a name to what is going on.
Leave with a plan. You will know the next step, the timeline, and what getting back looks like for you.
You should not have to leave the Upstate for elite level care after a sports injury. That is why I came back.
If something has been hurting longer than it should, let's take a look at it.
