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Research out of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City suggests that immobilizing the limb for four to six weeks after rotator cuff repair surgery, rather than starting physical therapy within seven to ten days, improves healing.

Michael J. Axe, MD, of First State Orthopaedics in Newark, Del., was presented with the 2012 Robert E. Leach Mr. Sports Medicine Award during the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Baltimore this weekend.

Mark Russell Geyer, MD, and Maxwell Adu-Lartey, DO, have joined Athletics Orthopedics and Knee Center in Houston.

The American Academy of Pain Medicine released a statement applauding the FDA's new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for opioids.

EP Global Communications has appointed Corey W. Hunter, MD, to the position of company medical director and chairman of the scientific advisory board.

Here are four recent disputes involving ambulatory surgery centers and insurance companies over payments and in-network status.

Yosef Rabinowitz, managing director of TBRC Cost Recovery in New York City, discusses five ways to trim costs in ambulatory surgery centers by focusing on administrative and resource expenses.

This article is written by Michael J. Sacopulos is the CEO of Medical Risk Institute (MRI) MRI seeks to reduce liability exposures faced by healthcare providers.You may be playing a high tech game of Russian Roulette with your practice and…

Humira may provide effective pain relief in patients with axial spondyloarthritis, according to a study reported in MedPage Today.

The National Institutes of Health have appointed pain and neuroscience researcher Catherine Bushnell, PhD, scientific director of a new multidisciplinary pain program studying how the brain interprets and manages pain.