Dispatch from South Africa: COMOC 2016
I recently returned from the 13th meeting of the Combined Orthopaedic Associations, affectionately known as COMOC 2016. This …
Cup-Placement Precision Declines as Obesity Increases
Obesity can negatively affect outcomes after total hip arthroplasty (THA), and an inadvertent reduction in cup anteversion may be one …
JBJS Editor’s Choice—Expanding Patient Access to Orthopaedic Consults
In the May 4, 2016 issue of The Journal, Gruca et al. describe the very effective outreach efforts …
Histology Yields Clues to HO in Injured Service Members
Between 2000 and 2014, 1573 wounded US service members sustained one or more major amputations, and nearly two-thirds of those …
JBJS Webinar: How to Prevent and Treat MSK Infections
Musculoskeletal (MSK) infections are highly prevalent and potentially serious, and orthopaedists are frequently faced with preventing and treating them. Wherever …
JBJS Reviews Editor’s Choice–Genomics in Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery
In current clinical practice, most patients who undergo total joint replacement surgery receive similar preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management. However, …
Not So Run-of-the-Mill Running Injuries
Lower-extremity stress fractures account for an estimated 16% of all injuries among runners. The April 2016 “Case Connections” article sprints …
Cobalt-Ion Thresholds Could Ease Follow-Up Burden on Some MoM Patients
In the mid-2000s, before the orthopaedic community was aware of the potentially catastrophic shortcomings of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants, nearly …
What’s New in Hand Surgery
Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature …