Long-Term Opioid Use Before TKA Raises Risk of Revision
Given the prevalence of opioid prescriptions, many patients present for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) having been on long-term opioid therapy. …
What’s New in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature …
Acute Low Back Pain: Adding Oxycodone to Naproxen Doesn’t Help
As if on cue, a just-published study in JAMA backed up the recent AAOS statement on opioids by finding that …
AAOS Issues Statement on Opioids in Orthopaedics
The current prescription-opioid/heroin epidemic in the US has been much publicized of late. According to a recent AAOS information statement…