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Biologics
NASA Highlights Winners of Challenge to Engineer Human Tissue
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will announce the first- and second-place winners of the Vascular Tissue Challenge, a prize competition to grow…
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Extremities
Flipped Intercalary Segments in Femoral Shaft Fractures: Not Such a Problem After All?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Wondering about the best way to handle flipped intercalary segments in femoral shaft fractures? Read on……
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Sports Medicine
HSS Study Shows Greater Increases in Training Volume Associated With Higher Risk of Injuries Among Marathon Runners
NEW YORK, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Marathon runners hoping to stay injury-free now have further cause to avoid sharp spikes in…
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Recon
Metformin—Wonder Drug for TKA Patients with Diabetes?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. With type-2 diabetes on the rise, a team of researchers from Emory University in Atlanta set…
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Recon
Topical Intrawound Antibiotic Powder Does NOT Reduce SSI Risk After Acetabular Fracture ORIF
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Citing, in part, a rise in the marketing of antibiotic powders promising to reduce infection risk,…
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Extremities
A First in Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Function Assessment at 7 years Follow-up
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Presumably, one would like a new ankle to last for more than four years. But, say…
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Recon
Study: Low-Dose, Regular-Dose Aspirin Equally Effective for VTE in Primary TJAs
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. A team of researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota recently examined data on primary total…
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Sports Medicine
So Which Sport Results in the Most Surgeries?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. You can’t make improvements if you don’t know where the “trouble spots” are. In sports medicine,…
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Recon
New Free Tool to Study Cup Orientation and Pelvic Dynamics in THA Patients
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. In order to clear up inconsistences in methods describing acetabular cup orientation, a team of researchers…
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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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Recon
Femoral Head Fractures: First Study of Minimum 10-Year Outcomes
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. A “first” in the literature, a new evaluation of 10-year functional outcomes in patients with femoral…
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Spine
Low Back Pain: “Enormous” Potential Impacts
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. With an estimated 16 million adults—8% of all adults—experiencing chronic back pain1, there is a…
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Recon
Dissatisfied Hip Arthroscopy Patients? Might be Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. New work published in the October 8, 2020 edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine…
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Biologics
Quality of Life: What Happens When Spine, Adult Reconstructive Surgery Square Off?
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Citing the traditional difficulties of comparing varied disease states, a team of researchers from NYU…
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Spine
When Surgeons Wear Stress Monitors During Procedures…
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. In South Korea, it’s not always the patients who have all the monitors on during…
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