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Urfan Dar, MD, manager and medical director of Theda Oaks Surgery Center in San Antonio, offers seven tips for pain centers.

The National Sports Concussion Cooperative was recently founded to support concussion-related research and testing, according to a Rawlings Sports Goods news release.

Here are 10 spine surgeon team physicians or consultants to professional athletes.

Researchers suggest catastrophizing, the act of thinking of events as a catastrophe, is a strong predictor of whether an individual's acute pain after surgery or an injury will evolve into chronic pain, according to a news report by MedPage Today.

Twenty-three orthopedic surgeons from Bronson Methodist Hospital, HealthCare Midwest and K Valley Orthopaedics/Southwestern Michigan Sportsmedicine Clinic, all in Kalamazoo, Mich., have joined to form Bronson Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, according to a Kalamazoo Gazette report.

Preoperative fibrinogen concentration can be a limiting factor for postoperative hemostasis during and after scoliosis surgery, according to a study published in Spine.

Hip impingements and subluxations are frequent among ballet movements, which can cause cartilage hypercompression, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Here are six observations about orthopedic-driven surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010. For this purpose, "orthopedic-driven surgery centers" are interpreted as surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent orthopedics.

DePuy Orthopaedics has launched GLOBAL ADVANTAGE+, a new instrumentation system for shoulder replacement surgery for use with the company's GLOBAL ADVANTAGE shoulder replacement implant, according to a company news release.

CareFusion has launched its 11-gauge vertebral balloon, a device that allows spine surgeons to repair vertebral compression fractures that are more difficult to treat due to their size and location in the spinal column, according to a company news release.