Orthopedic

Synergy Pack launched the ReHab Pack, a tool for at-home rehabilitation designed to improve outcomes with less in-clinic time, ultimately improving health system margins.

Here are eight orthopedic surgeons making headlines.

Approximately 82 percent of total knee replacements last more than 25 years, according to a systematic review in The Lancet.

Walmart named New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System a national center of excellence for lower joint replacement surgery.

Women's Choice Award included 22 hospitals on its 2019 Best Hospitals for Orthopedics list.

Non-surgical orthopedic treatment clinic manager IMAC Holdings was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange Feb. 13, the Nashville Post reports.

With increasing cost containment pressures, routine postoperative laboratory tests for total knee arthroplasty patients are not justified, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma.

Everett, Wash.-based Providence Medical Group's Cranial, Spine and Joint Clinic neurosurgeon Sanford Weight, MD, retired from surgery Feb. 8, taking a part-time position with Western Washington Medical Group's Orthopedic Sports, Spine & Hand Center in Everett, HeraldNet reports.

Orthopedic surgery has become a major focus for many hospitals and health systems, with more converting to orthopedic-only centers.

University of Alabama at Birmingham named Steven Theiss, MD, the department of orthopedics’ first-ever chairman.