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The South Carolina High School League approved a proposal which would place high school pitchers under a pitch count for the 2016-17 season, the Aiken Standard reports.

Northwest Georgia Orthopedics and Sports Medicine recently added Chad Smith, MD, to its staff, the Dalton Daily Citizen reports.

This issue of Becker’s Spine Review includes expertise on minimally invasive spine surgery, outpatient spine centers and the latest news in spine and around healthcare. The issue also includes a list of “21 Spine Surgeons With Gifted Business Minds.”  …

There are six main performance factors that predict ulnar collateral ligament injuries for Major League Baseball pitchers, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson had a torn meniscus in his knee surgically repaired by Chris Larson, MD, of Twin City Orthopedics, NFL.com reports.

Former orthopedic surgeon for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Daniel Lamar, MD, will now serve as an orthopedic consultant for the Tennessee Titans, the Business Observer reports.

Barry Callahan, MD, is a renowned orthopedic hand surgeon at the Alabama Bone & Joint Clinic. He spoke to Becker's on the future of hand surgery and research despite a decreasing investor base.

VMG Health Intellimarker compiled statistics on the number of staff present at 201 freestanding ASCs from across the United States. These are the numbers for outpatient, primarily orthopedic centers.

A study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine claims that runners who received hip arthroscopy treatment for femoroacetabular impingement returned to running 8.5 months after treatment 95 percent of the time.

Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center became the first in the state to inject AST-OPC1 into the spinal cord a recently paralyzed man as part of a new clinical trial, according to a Life Science Daily report.