The North American Spine Society has been very active over the past few years in Washington, D.C., advocating for high quality spine care. The organization has an office in the nation's capitol where NASS physicians and representatives regularly meet with…
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Brian McKeon, MD, team physician for the Boston Celtics, recently treated players Jermaine O'Neal for a left knee injury and Marquis Daniels for a bruised spinal cord, according to various Boston Herald reports.
Anand Gandhi, MD, a physician in interventional pain management at Laser Spine Institute in Scottsdale, Ariz., recently published in an instructional book titled The Comprehensive Treatment of the Aging Spine: Minimally Invasive and Advanced Techniques, according to a practice news…
Integra LifeSciences, a Plainsboro, N.J.-based orthopedic device company, recently launched the Integra Allograft Cancellous Sponge, a compressible bone graft composed entirely of cancellous bone, according to a company news release.
Scott W. Wolfe, MD, and Howard J. Hillstrom, PhD, both of the Hospital of Special Surgery, recently published an article documenting the dart thrower's arc to assess differences in patterns of motion associated with the surgical fusion of wrist bones,…
Glenn Fleisig, PhD, of the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala., led a study that found young boys who pitch more than 100 innings in a season are 3.5 times more likely to undergo elbow or shoulder surgery or…
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Thomas Anderson, MD, is an orthopedic sports medicine physician at the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Center in Garfield Heights, Ohio. He treats both adolescent and adult patients as well as professional athletes. Dr. Anderson is an assistant team physician for…
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The Chicago City Council recently tightened the rules for returning to play after students receive concussions during athletic activities, according to a report from The Herald News.