Orthopedic

Robotic-assisted surgery has moved past the novelty stage in orthopedics, and one of the field’s earliest adopters says the technology’s biggest wins are still ahead — both in what it can prove and in who it can help. Hafiz Kassam,…

Kinomatic, an AI- and virtual reality-driven orthopedic surgery planning and aftercare company, launched Kinect, a platform connecting surgical planning, case management and surgeon collaboration for knee and hip joint replacements. The web-based platform brings case data, imaging, communications and surgeon…

Philadelphia-based Drexel University College of Medicine named Asif Ilyas, MD, academic chair of orthopedic surgery, according to a Sept. 2 LinkedIn post.  Dr. Ilyas had served as interim chair of the department since December 2025. He is also a professor…

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medicine researchers identified a potential biomarker that could help predict outcomes in patients with severe bone and joint infections. Researchers studied humanized mice and patient bone samples and found T cells in chronic Staphylococcus aureus infections…

GLP-1 medications are making more patients viable for surgery, but the muscle loss, bone changes and nutritional gaps that come with rapid weight loss may be working against the outcomes surgeons are optimizing for. Patients are arriving in surgeons’ offices…

A single number has defined osteoporosis diagnosis for more than three decades: the T-score, a measure of bone mineral density taken from a DEXA scan and codified by the World Health Organization. It is still the standard insurers use to…

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health expanded its pediatric orthopedic outreach team in Bismarck, N.D., with the addition of Trenton Sprenkle, DO. Dr. Sprenkle, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon based in Fargo, is now providing pediatric orthopedic surgery outreach services in Bismarck,…

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health completed the first surgical procedure using Stryker’s SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro.  The procedure was a hip arthroscopy performed by Chad Mather, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Duke Health, according to a Sept. 1 press…

UT Health East Texas in Tyler expanded orthopedic care into the new UT Tyler School of Medicine Building as part of its joint venture with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health and Austin-based The University of Texas System. The building houses orthopedic,…

Eric Taris, MD, a hand surgeon at Appalachian Orthopedics in Johnson City, Tenn., is structuring part of his week entirely around wide-awake, local-anesthesia, no-tourniquet — known as WALANT — procedures, he told Becker’s. Starting this fall, Dr. Taris will spend…