Currently, each year more than 300,000 Americans sustain a hip fracture, and that number is expected to rise to more than 500,000 within the next
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A review of five hip- and knee-implant innovations, initiated by the FDA in reaction to serious problems with metal-on-metal hip bearings, found that none offered
The Zip Surgical Skin Closure device from ZipLine Medical (Campbell, CA) is an intriguing recent evolution in surgical wound closure. If the experiences of two
For any number of reasons, regulatory issues among them, orthopaedic innovations in China often have modest relevance for the practice of orthopaedics elsewhere in the
A recent meta-analysis of eight randomized trials (1,408 total patients) compared aspirin to anticoagulants such as warfarin and dabigatran for preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) after
People with shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS) randomly assigned to six sessions of physical therapy (PT) experienced the same 50% improvement in average pain and disability
A prospective observational study of 45 intercollegiate soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and football players found that 73% of the enrollees returned to their sport within a
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently awarded a $500,000 grant to an international trauma study called INORMUS (International Orthopaedic Multi-center Study in Fracture
Dr. Vinod Dasa, assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, has scheduled a revision knee replacement for
Baylor University basketball star Isaiah Austin was 20 years old when the NBA told him last month that he had Marfan syndrome and was ineligible