ARCO Special Issue Available at JBJS.org
Papers presented at the most recent biennial meeting of ARCO are now available in the ARCO Special Issue at JBJS.org…
Nontraumatic Osteonecrosis: An Early Target for Gene Therapy
As osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) progresses, it can impair a patient’s ability to walk, and hip arthroplasty is …
Association ≠Causation: Are Steroid Injections for OA Risky?
A recent report in Radiology citing possible complications from injecting steroids into painful joints with osteoarthritis (OA) has received lots …
Let’s Continue Improving Hip-Implant Longevity
In October 2017, JBJS published results from a 10-year randomized controlled trial by Devane et al. documenting the dramatic …
Don’t Delay DDH Treatment to Wait for Ossific Nucleus
The exact cause of osteonecrosis in the setting of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is unknown. However, some pediatric …
Reperfusion Patterns in Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
In the November 16, 2016 edition of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Kim et al. improve …
What’s New in Hip Replacement
Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature …
JBJS JOPA Image Quiz: 74-Year-Old Woman with Knee Pain
This month’s Image Quiz from the JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants (JOPA) presents the case of …
JBJS Editor’s Choice—Perfusion Key to Preventing Osteonecrosis in SCFE
Osteonecrosis of the femoral head is a dreaded complication for patients with a slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). This complication …