Orthopedics
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Total Hip Replacement Superior to Exercise Therapy for Improving Hip Osteoarthritis Pain and Function
Greater improvement in patient-reported hip pain and function at 6 months was achieved with total hip replacement than with resistance training in...
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Disc Degeneration in Chronic Low Back Pain: Can Stem Cells Help?
Allogeneic bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stromal cells were safe but did not demonstrate efficacy in treating intervertebral disc degeneration...
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Arthroscopy Doesn’t Delay Total Knee Replacement in Knee Osteoarthritis
In this secondary analysis, nearly 80% of patients with knee osteoarthritis did not require total knee replacement within 10 years of nonoperative...
Conference Coverage
What Does Natural Healing of ACL Ruptures Mean for Long-Term Outcomes?
Evidence mounts that the anterior cruciate ligament may heal without surgery, but the long-term outcomes are only beginning to be evaluated.
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Bone Infections Increase After S. aureus Bacteremia in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
The 90-day cumulative incidence of osteoarticular infections was nearly double in patients with RA and was higher in those on tumor necrosis...
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Watchful Waiting Less Expensive, as Effective as Physical Therapy for Frozen Shoulder
Monitoring patients with shoulder adhesive capsulitis is as effective as and cheaper than PT, study says.
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A Multimodal Strategy to Manage Pain in an In-Patient and Out-Patient Total Joint Program: What Do You Need to Know?
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Are There Benefits to Taking GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Before Joint Surgery?
Two new studies looked at the effects of the weight-loss drugs on rates of complications after hip replacement procedures. The results were mixed...
Perspectives
A Military Nurse Saves a Life After a Brutal Rollover Crash
After watching a woman being ejected from her car then run over by a trailer, a nurse stabilizes her for transport to the hospital.
From the Journals
Study eases fears: Knee surgery surge not linked to premature intervention
“The indications for surgery are not being eroded by operating on healthier patients to fill operating room time.”
Commentary
‘Decapitated’ boy saved by surgery team
The key element in surgeries of the cervical spine – trauma and complex spine surgery – is planning.
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Surgery for early breast cancer can worsen frailty in older women
About 1 in 5 experienced clinically significant deterioration in frailty status after treatment for breast cancer.