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Regulatory
Elite Dallas spine surgeons get prison time for role in Forest Park hospital kickback scheme
March 18, 2021 / By Kevin Krause Updated with the remaining sentencings They were talented and successful surgeons who helped pioneer…
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Extremities
Plumbers’ Advantage Over Orthopedic Surgeons: THEIR Pay Isn’t Declining
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. You would think with all of the stress due to amped up regulations and complexity in…
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Sports Medicine
Nemours Children’s Health Orthopedic Surgeons Write New Textbook on Telemedicine in Orthopedics
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Now that we know telemedicine is here to stay, it’s helpful to have reliable sources of…
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PrecisionOS Hosts World-Leading Hip Surgeons for the First Live Virtual Surgery Webinar in Collaboration with the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) and CONMED
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — VNM USA reports that PrecisionOS, pioneers of the Surgical Mastery Platform™, announced its partnership with the Arthroscopy Association of North…
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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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Spine
Top-Trained Spine Surgeons Advise on CentersforArtificialDisc.com When to Consider Artificial Disc Replacement in 2021
DENVER, Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — If you’ve been told you have a herniated disc, you probably have also been told you…
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Extremities
Exactech Expands Active Intelligence® Portfolio with Chime Clinical Exchange App
December 14, 2020 GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and smart solutions for joint replacement…
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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
“Clear” Cut Off Points Can Predict Postoperative Destination after TSA
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting that shoulder arthroplasty is increasing at a rate faster than hip and knee arthroplasty, a…
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Extremities
Mount Sinai Expands into Westchester County, New York
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Not that spending hours on a train or bus can’t be fun…but now, orthopedic patients in…
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Sports Medicine
AOSSM President, Michael Ciccotti, MD Talks Leadership: “All Together Now”
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we have heard, “We are in this together.” That could also…
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COVID-19
Pandemic Preparedness Among Spine Surgeons: Major Work in Progress
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. “Learn from yesterday, live for today,” said Albert Einstein. Alas, it’s pretty tough to follow…
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Hospitals
Wear a Skirt=Physically Incapable of Performing Surgery?
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. What happens when a team of investigators descends on a sports medicine clinic with pictures…
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Recon
Is 50% of the Literature Wrong?
by Elizabeth Hoffheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. As full-time editor-in-chief of Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery; Arthroscopy Techniques; and…
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Spine
Indication Stretching in Cervical Disc Arthroplasty: A Problem?
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion How far can you stretch indications before they “break?” A…
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