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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to a novel spinal vertebral body replacement device indicated for partial replacement of a diseased or damaged vertebral body.

A Mayo Clinic team decided to take a new look at reoperation, revision, and infection risk rates for high body mass index (BMI) patients. In total, the team pulled data from 13,919 total knee ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simon Young, M.D., knee surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand, has received the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons’ (AAHKS) Clinical Research Award at the society’s annual meeting in November.