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Leonardo Kapural, MD, was lead clinical investigator for a double-blinded randomized controlled trial comparing cooled radiofrequency with the Kimberly-Clark TransDiscal Cooled Radiofrequency System for patients with discogenic and sacroiliac joint pain. He found that patients who underwent cooled radiofrequency experienced…

MMAR Medical, a distributor of sports medicine and orthopedic products, has announced the expansion of its DonJoy product line.

Minneapolis-based Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota announced that it has been named a 2013 Center of Excellence in Pain Management by the American Pain Society.

At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting 2013 in Chicago Stuart Weinstein, MD, discussed the organization's advocacy wing and why it's crucial for orthopedic and spine surgeons to become engaged in political advocacy in the session titled "Healthcare…

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Charles R. Gordon, MD, will give a presentation titled "Succeeding in the Face of Challenges – Core Strategies from the Front Line."

The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert focused on specific attributes of physician-owned distributorships the agency believes "produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety."

A research letter, published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, states that in a study of 1,000 requests for MRIs of the lumbar spine, nearly half were ordered for indications considered inappropriate or of uncertain value, according to a Medscape Today…

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Scott Glaser, MD, will give a presentation titled "Interventional Pain Management – New Concepts to Reduce ER Visits, Hospitalization and Re-Admissions."

Jim Kyle, MD, the team physician of Concord University in Athens, W.Va., recently discussed the importance of implementing a medical timeout at sporting events, according to a Bluefield Daily Telegraph report.  

Dr. Geier is an orthopaedic surgeon and Director of MUSC Sports Medicine. He also serves as chairman of the Public Relations Committee for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.Double-bundle ACL reconstructions have been proposed as an alternative to the…