Navy Commander Keith Stuessi, MD, is establishing sports medicine clinics at Camp Leatherneck southern Afghanistan in order to treat soldiers quickly and move them back onto the field, according to a report from The Villages Daily Sun.
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Cortoss is a safe and effective for treating osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures when using vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty, according to an article published in Spine.
Hayley Queller, MD, a sports medicine physician at Orthopedic Associates of Long Island in East Setauket, N.Y., testified at a congressional hearing this past week on the importance of concussion awareness among young athletes, according to a Times Beacon Record…
Imakiire General Hospital in Japan saw a drop in rates of surgical site infections in elderly patients undergoing spine surgery after introducing a nutritional program, according to an ORTHOSuperSite report.
Robert Hirschl, MD, joined the Mercy Brain and Spine Center in Des Moines, Iowa, according to a Des Moines-Register report.
Here are 10 current topics on orthopedic and spine-driven ASCs.
Alan Beyer, MD, of Orthopedic Surgery Center of Orange County in Newport Beach, Calif., discusses four ways the surgery center has expanded orthopedic practice at the surgery center.
According to Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Management, ASCs can improve their contracts with payors by simply doing adequate research about costs and regulations beforehand. Your ASC may be able to ask for higher fees if a…
Craig Levitz, MD, partner at Orlin & Cohen Orthopedic Group in Rockville Centre, N.Y., currently spreads his expertise on knee, shoulder and elbow disorders to future physicians around the world. He is lead faculty for Smith & Nephew's minimally invasive…
Computer navigation is available for orthopedic physicians performing knee surgery. The equipment is designed aid the physicians with incision placement and depth, implant placement and bone resections based on the patient's individual anatomy.