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Extremities
Orthopedic Trauma Follow-up Disconnected from Clinical Care?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Curious about issues surrounding the expectation of a 1-year follow-up in orthopedic trauma patients, researchers from…
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Recon
Depressed Patients: 225% More Likely to Receive Opioids for Knee OA!
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. There is a lot to unpack in a recent massive study of patients with knee osteoarthritis…
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Extremities
Electric Scooters: What are the Related Fracture Patterns?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. An average person may look at an electric scooter (e-scooter) and think, “What a charming and…
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Extremities
Sad, Distressed Patients’ Misperceptions Can Affect Their Relationship with Pain
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. While pain is most likely not “all in your head,” how you perceive that pain in…
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Sports Medicine
Push Rotator Cuff Tear Patients a Little Postop?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Once a patient with a traumatic full-thickness rotator cuff (RC) tear leaves the OR, little is…
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Extremities
Duke Study: Depression Affects Total Ankle Outcomes
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Successful surgery=happy patient, right? This “equation” is thrown off when it comes to depressed people who…
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Biologics
First Study to Visually Capture Biofilm Structure of Retrieved Implants from Spine Patients with Pseudarthrosis
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. If seeing is believing, then researchers from the University of Toledo, Primus Super Speciality Hospital, the…
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Financial
Exactech Acquires Muvr, Innovative Patient Wearable and Communication Solutions for Orthopaedic Practices
December 02, 2020 GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and smart technologies for joint replacement…
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Hospitals
HSS: Bilateral Knee Replacement Lower in African-Americans
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting the existing data indicating disparities in unilateral total knee arthroplasty (UTKA) surgery, a team from…
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Spine
Spine Surgery: Clinically Relevant Results ≠ Satisfaction?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. What’s a researcher to think when patients’ pain levels drop, but they remain dissatisfied? New multicenter…
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Spine
Surgeons’ Expectations More Accurate Than Patients’ Expectations in Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes After Lumbar Spine Surgery
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Surgeons’ preoperative expectations were more accurate than patients’ expectations in predicting patient-reported outcomes two years after…
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Recon
Total Joint Replacement and the Impact on Future Falls in Osteoarthritis Patients
ROSEMONT, Ill., Oct. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Patients who have had a total joint arthroplasty (TJA) demonstrate excellent long-term outcomes with increased…
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Hospitals
Methamphetamines Adding Fuel to the Orthopedic Fire
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. “Ice,” “blue,” “crystal,” or “meth”…whatever you call it, methamphetamines (MAs) can heap problems on top…
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Hospitals
THA Disparities? It’s the Neighborhood!
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting that disparities in total hip arthroplasty (THA) utilization have worsened in recent years, a…
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Extremities
Happy Upper Extremity Patients? Must be the Telemedicine
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. When a team of researchers from Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania pondered the issue…
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