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For patients choosing to travel abroad for surgical services, orthopedic procedures are among the highest in demand, according to the 2015 Medical Tourism Survey conducted by the Medical Tourism Association, an international nonprofit trade organization.

A $40 million Sports Medicine and Performance Center is planned to begin construction in mid-2018 and open on the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus by the end of 2019, according to The Gazette.

Paralympian David Smith will no longer compete in the 2016 Rio Games due to spinal tumor surgery, according to The Scotsman.

Thomas K. Bond, MD, a regenerative medicine specialist at TotalCare Health & Wellness Medical Center in Lafayette, La., is helping a dream come true for Olympic gymnast Matthew Hicks.

Kennewick, Wash.-based Northwest Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine has broken ground on a new facility in Richland, Wash., according to a KEPR TV report.

Before the men's basketball game on Feb. 22, Morehead (Ky.) State University's department of athletics named an athletic center "Dr. R. Thomas Fossett Athletic Training Center" in dedication of Thomas Fossett, MD.

The Brooklyn Nets will unveil the Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center in New York on Feb. 17, according to an NBA report.

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have begun a retrospective study to analyze implants that fail in the hope of improving future implants and preventing or decreasing the incidence of joint replacement failure.

In 2015, the body reconstruction and repair products segment dominated the global sports medicine market by product, based on a RNR Market Research report, according to WhaTech.

Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital signed an agreement with Mazak, a machine tool manufacturer, offering full reimbursement to local employees from Mazak who come to the hospital for total knee or hip replacement procedures, according to a Cincinnati Business Courier report.