The authors concluded that “both PROMs and smart implantable device gait metrics show significant improvements post-TKA, though they correlate weakly with each other, suggesting a possible discrepancy ...

The murder of Brian Thompson on a New York City street shocked the entire musculoskeletal community. The most tragic aspect ...

Time to take a long hard look at non-metal constructs? We’re referring to PEKK, not PEEK. PEKK is antibacterial, a ...

United States District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida recently ruled that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are ...

Promoting off-label use for legal purposes is protected by free speech. At least if you are selling drugs, said the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York on December 3. The Court did not specifically ...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to change the risk/reward equation for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and is offering to sweeten the pot. The agency is proposing to ...

Is osteoarthritis (OA), the most common joint ailment afflicting middle-age and older adults, caused by running? According to Rebekah Marcarelli, writing for Headlines and Global News, past studies on ...

Rates of total hip arthroplasty have risen steadily during the past four decades. Is there a way to avoid a total hip replacement? Exercise. That is the advice Scandinavian researchers give as a ...

Surgeons performed more than one million hip and knee replacements in 2013, but an additional 230 will be added to that total between December 2 and December 7. That’s when 130 volunteer orthopedic ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) have found away around ultrasound’s inability to penetrate bone and metal. Using customized structures, the researchers have created ...

Is there a relationship between the type of anesthesia used to perform a joint replacement surgery and the incidence of surgical site infections (SSI)? According to a new study titled “The Impact of ...