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Sports Medicine
Pain Control After Primary ACLR: Regional Anesthesia Trumps Spinal Anesthesia
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting a lack of clarity surrounding the ideal anesthetic modality for postoperative pain control in anterior…
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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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Extremities
Topical Vancomycin Results in Fewer Staph aureus Infections
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Citing a study indicating that Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent organism encountered in fracture surgery…
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Recon
Anterior Tension Band Plating for Patella Fractures: Viable, but…
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. New work from a Level 1 trauma center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, has looked…
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Recon
FIRST Study to Define Population-Based Incidence of FAI in Large Group of Hip Pain Patients
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Citing a dearth of data on the incidence of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in patients with hip…
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Recon
New Study Helps Forecast Functional Recovery Time and Return to Activities Following Hip Fracture Surgery
ROSEMONT, Ill., Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — For patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture, there are still unknowns regarding the return to…
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Robotics
Drs. Alex Vaccaro, Charles Fisher: The State of the Spine
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. What happens when two spine surgeons go over their peers’ work with surgical precision? Ideally, more…
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Recon
Largest Study of Its Kind Looks at Preop, Postop Functional Outcomes in Reconstructed Scapula Process Malunions and/or Nonunions
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. A new retrospective case series performed at a Level I trauma center has attempted to fill…
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Recon
Consider RTSA When Revising Hemiarthroplasty and Anatomic TSA?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting a rising growth rate of primary and revision shoulder arthroplasty procedures, researchers from The Permanente…
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Spine
Inspired Spine Study Demonstrates Effective Treatment of Spinal Stenosis without Laminectomy
BURNSVILLE, Minn., Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Inspired Spine has released an innovative study on the effectiveness of the Physiologic decompression of Lumbar…
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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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Hospitals
Opioid Prescribing: Government Rules PLUS Institutional Initiatives=Better Results
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. When researchers from NYU Langone Health reviewed data on 20,483 patients who underwent orthopedic procedures, they…
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Spine
Aurora Spine Plans A Major Multicenter Study of its ZIP™ Interspinous Fixation Device for Relief of Back Pain
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aurora Spine Corporation (“Aurora Spine” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ASG), a designer…
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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
HSS Bone Study Sheds Light on Complications After Spinal Surgery
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The microscopic structure of bone appears to predict which patients will experience poor outcomes after…
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