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Need to Know Pain Management Spine

By Itself, Spine Surgery Not a Risk Factor for Prolonged Opioid Use

August 9, 2017 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The use of prescription painkillers in the US increased four-fold between 1997 and 2010, and postoperative overdoses doubled over a similar time period. In the

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Editor's Choice Knee Pain Management

The Opioid Epidemic: Consequences Beyond Addiction

May 18, 2017 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The orthopaedic community worldwide—and especially those of us in the US, the nation most notorious for over-prescribing—has become very cognizant of the epidemic of opioid

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Knee Need to Know Pain Management

Long-Term Opioid Use Before TKA Raises Risk of Revision

January 6, 2017 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Given the prevalence of opioid prescriptions, many patients present for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) having been on long-term opioid therapy. In the January 4, 2017

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Rehabilitation What's New

What’s New in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation

December 9, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature during the previous year in 13 subspecialties. Click

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Need to Know

Acute Low Back Pain: Adding Oxycodone to Naproxen Doesn’t Help

October 22, 2015 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

As if on cue, a just-published study in JAMA backed up the recent AAOS statement on opioids by finding that neither the opiate oxycodone nor

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