Orthopedic

Capital Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Clive, Iowa, named Ryan Smith vice president of operations, according to a Business Record report.

G. Douglas Letson, MD, has been named a 2015 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

In a study presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society, patients undergoing open thoracic surgical procedures had much higher rates of pain six months after surgery than those who had undergone minimally invasive video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

A study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that treatment with Tenex Health's TX System provides sustained pain relief and functional improvement for patients suffering from tennis elbow.

Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., will conduct a free community education event on MAKOplasty technology for knee and hip procedures.

Shriners hospitals in Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Galveston, Texas, will launch a telemedicine pilot next year to connect children with orthopedic specialists.

The orthopedic navigation systems market is projected to rapidly grow from 2015 to 2022, according to medGadget.

Fairmont Regional Medical Center in Fairmont, W.Va., and Mountainstate Orthopedic Associates in Morgantown, W.Va., partnered to provide orthopedic care.

According to researcher and author Vasily Shishkin, Blender can be a useful tool in preparing for orthopedic surgeries.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Jaswinder Grover, MD, was dismissed Oct. 27 from a civil lawsuit filed in California earlier this year, according to India West.