Research out of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City suggests that immobilizing the limb for four to six weeks after rotator cuff repair surgery, rather than starting physical therapy within seven to ten days, improves healing.
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Michael J. Axe, MD, of First State Orthopaedics in Newark, Del., was presented with the 2012 Robert E. Leach Mr. Sports Medicine Award during the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Baltimore this weekend.
Mark Russell Geyer, MD, and Maxwell Adu-Lartey, DO, have joined Athletics Orthopedics and Knee Center in Houston.
NovaBone has received a patent for its NovaBone Putty.
Misonix has entered into a new, three-year, exclusive distribution agreement with Soelim, in Seoul, South Korea, for the distribution of the SonaStar Ultrasonic Surgical Aspiration System and the BoneScalpel Ultrasonic Bone Cutting System.
AxoGen, a company focused on the development of products and technologies for peripheral nerve reconstruction and regeneration, announced approval by the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of its first commercial shipment of Avance Nerve Graft to a distribution partner in Italy.
The American Academy of Pain Medicine released a statement applauding the FDA's new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for opioids.
EP Global Communications has appointed Corey W. Hunter, MD, to the position of company medical director and chairman of the scientific advisory board.
Anthony Rinella, MD, a spine surgeon and founder of Illinois Spine and Scoliosis Center in Homer Glen, will receive the Scoliosis Research Society's Walter P. Blount Humanitarian Award, according to a Morris Daily Herald report.
Kirkham B. Wood, MD, is the chief of the orthopedic spine service and program director of the spine surgery fellowship program at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston. He has a special interest in adult spinal deformity, degenerative conditions and spinal trauma.…