Orthopedics Today Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Time to take another look at second-look knee arthroscopy
• High percentage of elite athletes returned to competitive sports after hip arthroscopy
• Live simulcast surgery will be included in AANA Annual Meeting
• Orthopedic groups should consider their strategic options now Gary W. Herschman, JD
• Seek better treatment guideline for great toe arthritis than Coughlin grade
• Speaker: Metal allergy testing not needed for most painful TKAs
• SSI in non-idiopathic scoliosis showed susceptibility to aminoglycosides
• At Issue: Stem cell therapy Adam William Anz, MD; Jason L. Dragoo, MD, FAAOS; Shane A. Shapiro, MD
• Spring is the time to celebrate growth, create a vision of the future Anthony A. Romeo, MD
• Increased wait time linked with greater 30-day mortality risk after hip fracture surgery
• Obese, non-obese patients had similar absolute pain, function scores after TKA
• Black patients with soft tissue sarcoma of extremities more likely to have poorer outcomes
• Carpometacarpal arthroplasty yielded low revision rates in patients younger than 50 years
• Medicare reimbursement for orthopedic procedures decreases from 2000 to 2016
• Study evaluates reliability of modified radiographic union score in tibia fractures with bone loss
• Telehealth seen as safe, satisfactory tool for treatment of non-displaced pediatric elbow fractures
• Surface topography used to determine body changes in patients with AIS
• Overlapping surgery was a safe practice in hip and knee arthroplasty
• Protocol reduces infection rate in high-risk TJA patients
• A 76-year-old man with an atypical presentation of extensor lag Michael J. McKernan, MD; Kirstin E. Acus III, MD; Raymond W. Acus III, MD
• In today’s health care environment, should second-look knee arthroscopy be reevaluated as a clinical practice?
• Single-incision piriformis-sparing posterior THA approach does not require special instruments Geert Meermans, MD