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Rush University Medical Center

Rush University Medical Center

Cartilage defects acquired through the wear and tear of everyday life ultimately contribute to osteoarthritis (OA)--the most common form of arthritis and a significant source of...

Physician Rating Scales Do Not Accurately Rate Physicians

Physician Rating Scales Do Not Accurately Rate Physicians

Review Article  Physician Rating Scales Do Not Accurately Rate Physicians Matthew B. Burn, MD; David M. Lintner, MD; Pedro E. Cosculluela, MD; Kevin E. Varner, MD; Shari R....

A Simple Modification of Extension Block Pinning for Mallet Fractures

A Simple Modification of Extension Block Pinning for Mallet Fractures

Surgery for mallet fractures has evolved. Generally, the direction of the evolution has been from open procedures to closed procedures and from direct procedures to indirect...

VIDEO: Augmedics tests their augmented-reality (AR) system in spine surgery

VIDEO: Augmedics tests their augmented-reality (AR) system in spine surgery

Augmedics completes second successful cadaver study with the xvision-spine (XVS) AR surgical navigation system (press release) Augmedics, a developer of an augmented-reality...

Lourdes surgeon performs New Jersey's first 'opioid-sparing' shoulder surgeries

Lourdes surgeon performs New Jersey's first 'opioid-sparing' shoulder surgeries

Lourdes surgeon performs New Jersey's first 'opioid-sparing' shoulder surgeries Tuesday Apr 17, 2018 at 7:17 PM Dr. Sean McMillian, the chief of orthopedic surgery at Lourdes...

Duke Orthopaedics receives endowment from Aaron A. Hofmann Foundation

Duke Orthopaedics receives endowment from Aaron A. Hofmann Foundation

Durham, N.C. - Through a gift of $500,000 from the Aaron A. Hofmann Foundation, The Hofmann Family Resident Education Fund has been created at Duke Orthopaedics in honor of Dr....

Why One Surgeon Entrepreneur is Focused on MIS, Orthobiologics and UDI

Why One Surgeon Entrepreneur is Focused on MIS, Orthobiologics and UDI

Patrick Sweeney, M.D., a presenter in the Surgeon Pod at OMTEC 2018, is an orthopaedic spinal surgeon in practice since 1994 with a special interest in minimally invasive...

Femoral Component External Rotation Affects Knee... : Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®

Femoral Component External Rotation Affects Knee... : Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®

Background The correct amount of external rotation of the femoral component during TKA is controversial because the resulting changes in biomechanical knee function associated...

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update

A. Jay Khanna, MD, MBA Brian K. Kwon, MD, PhD, FRCSC Introduction Subaxial cervical spine injuries include fractures, dislo- cations, and ligamentous injuries between C3 and...

Can Genipin-coated Sutures Deliver a Collagen Crosslinking... : Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®

Can Genipin-coated Sutures Deliver a Collagen Crosslinking... : Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®

Background The suture-tendon interface is often the weakest link in tendon-to-tendon or tendon-to-bone repair. Genipin is an exogenous collagen crosslink agent derived from the...

Acquisitions Position NN, Inc. as Major Orthopaedic Supplier

Acquisitions Position NN, Inc. as Major Orthopaedic Supplier

You should anticipate and prepare for M&A activity in your supplier base. That counsel became reality last week for many device companies, as the orthopaedic industry’s supply...

The Effects of Platelet-Rich Plasma and Activated Collagen on Wound Healing in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty

The Effects of Platelet-Rich Plasma and Activated Collagen on Wound Healing in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty

The Effects of Platelet-Rich Plasma and Activated Collagen on Wound Healing in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty David C. Evans, BA; Bruce G. Evans, MD Orthopedics....