The True “Bottom Line” for Advanced Technology: Patient Outcomes
Orthopaedic surgery has been blessed with an explosion of diagnostic and therapeutic technology over the last several decades. Improvements in …
Linking Registry and Claims Data—Not as Boring as it Sounds
It is not often that The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery publishes an article about data-linkage efforts. To even …
Orthopaedic Surgeons Hate Fixation Failures
Few things are more disheartening to an orthopaedic surgeon than taking a patient back into the operating suite to treat …
Botox May Relieve Persistent Tennis Elbow
Lateral epicondylar tendinopathy (“tennis elbow”) that is refractory to the usual interventions of physical therapy/home-directed exercise, ice therapy, corticosteroid injections, …
Innovation + Persistence: A Crucial Combination
In the 1970s and 80s, the debate regarding management of clubfoot deformity centered around the location of incisions and how …
Keeping a Clinical Eye on Downstream Costs
Medical economics has progressed to the point where musculoskeletal physicians and surgeons cannot ignore the financial implications of their decisions. …
During First Post-Op Month, Periprosthetic Fractures Are as Lethal as Native Hip Fractures
In 1922, Kellogg Speed, MD said in his American College of Surgeons address, “We enter the world under the brim …
Giant-Cell Tumor Treatment: Curettage Without Denosumab Is Better
Denosumab is an FDA-approved drug for osteoporosis. It works by binding RANKL, thus inhibiting osteoclastic activity. Denosumab has also been …
Some Flags for Low Back Pain Screening Should be Yellow, Not Red
An estimated 85% of all adults will experience low back pain at some point in their lives. So-called “red flag” …