Orthopedics Today Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.

Table of Contents

• Patients’ emotional health plays an important role in functional results
• AOSSM provided a foundation for the sports medicine subspecialty to thrive
• Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2012 returns to Maui
• Orthopedics Today, OrthoMind partnership fosters orthopedic dialogue
• FDA orthopedic panel favors approval of synthetic bone graft for foot and ankle fusion
• Gauging patient satisfaction for total knee and hip arthroplasty
• Various disorders of the peritrochanteric space amenable to arthroscopic treatment
• ACL registry improves safety and quality through continuous surveillance of implant performance
• Rationing boards will try to reimburse for treatments with measured benefits and value Douglas W. Jackson, MD
• The power of role models in surgery: Positive and negative Gerald B. Healy, MD, FACS, FRCS(h), FRCSI(h)
• Hand Injury Severity Scoring system may accurately predict physical health-related quality of life
• Internal rotator and external rotator weakness associated with recurrent anterior instability
• Age, gender and surgeon volume found to affect long-term THR revision rates
• Concomitant SLAP, infraspinatus tears offer poor prognosis for return to play in overhead athletes
• Durable results seen with ACI for full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee
• Long-term study shows marked functional improvement with ACI in the talus
• Microfracture allows for quick return to play for elite athletes with chondral defects of the hip
• Study finds extensor mechanism problems may be more prevalent in rotating platform TKA devices
• Study identifies patient characteristics for squeaking hip implants
• Study on failed MoM hips finds no correlation between femoral size and wear rate
• Study shows increased operative times for performing total knee replacement in overweight patients
• Study supports only transfusing hip fracture patients who have signs of anemia
• Traumatic clavicle fractures linked with doubled mortality rate for elderly patients
• Varied success rates seen with articular cartilage knee surgeries
• Conflicting perspectives arise in the search for justice Lawrence H. Brenner, JD; B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
• Bone loss in shoulder instability: Part 2
• Extensor digitorum brevis transfer for crossover toe increases motion, while avoiding complications Steven L. Haddad MD