Charles Bush-Joseph, MD, a sports medicine specialist with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, recently appeared in a public service announcement for the STOP Sports Injuries campaign.
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The Baltimore Orioles will host a professional conference for athletic trainers sponsored by Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Foundation.
Memorial Hospital of Union County has partnered with local high schools to provide athletic trainers, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
John R. Tongue, MD, president of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, said the organization is pleased with the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 but urges elected officials to find a permanent solution to the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate.
President Barack Obama and Congress were able to avoid going over the fiscal cliff earlier this week by striking a deal to prevent huge spending cuts, including a 26.5 percent cut in physician reimbursement for Medicare patients, according to a…
Here are 20 orthopedic practices that expanded during 2012. If you would like to recommend another orthopedic practice expansion for this list, please contact Laura at lmiller@beckershealthcare.com.
Robotic technology is becoming more common in medicine and Mazor Robotics has introduced the technology to spine surgery in the United States.
Charles Mick, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Pioneer Spine and Sports Physicians in Northampton, Mass., and president of the North American Spine Society. He is also a member of the Advocacy Committee and the Rehabilitation Interventional and Medical…
A new bill advancing in the New Jersey legislature prevents insurers from requiring that patients try more than one pain medication before they can receive more powerful medications such as opioids when needed, according to a NJSpotlight report.
The new OsteoArthritis Pain Institute in Beach Park, Ill., a division of M.D. Total Care in Conway, S.C., is the first in northern Illinois to offer the Intra Articular Joint Program that serves an alternative to knee replacement surgery, according…