Rehabilitation News

BOULDER, Colo. — In a presentation at the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, John A. Nyland, ATC, EdD, PT, discussed factors athletes should focus on during rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction to return to sport safely and effectively.

BARCELONA, Spain — Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy was as effective as physical therapy in patients with degenerative knees and a confirmed meniscal tear that was non-obstructive, according to results of a multicenter study presented at the EFORT Annual Congress.

Jonas Sokolof, DO, has been named director of the division of oncological rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health.

Compared with formal therapy, patients who performed home exercises after sustaining a nondisplaced or minimally displaced fractures of the radial head or neck had better early function at 6 weeks.

Innovation in orthopaedics and traumatology is slowly, but surely influencing medical practice by replacing well-established procedures with new techniques whenever an adapted application is possible. The main theme of the EFORT 2018 Congress is Innovation and New Technologies, which focuses on the rapid and extensive evolution of surgery and treatment options within the worldwide orthopaedics and traumatology community. Indeed, nowadays, new methods considerably improve and speed up the diagnosis and treatment done in most areas of the orthopaedic field.

Prescription opioid volumes declined by 29% from their peak in 2011, according to a report on medicine use in the United States by IQVIA.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said today that it recommends against low doses of vitamin D or calcium for the prevention of fractures in post-menopausal women.

A 76-year-old African-American man presented to the ED after a fall from standing the day prior. His chief complaint was an inability to extend his right knee since the fall. He also reported some weakness he had experienced in his right leg for the past 3 weeks. Before the fall, he ambulated independently. He denied having any numbness or tingling in the affected extremity and any other injuries. His past medical history included hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and untreated herpes zoster (shingles) that involved the right leg 3 weeks prior to presentation. His surgical history was significant for right shoulder rotator cuff repair. He denied any recent travel history.

NEW ORLEANS — Patients who underwent home exercises for minimally displaced radial head fractures had early functionality scores that exceeded those of patients who underwent physical therapy for the same type of fracture. Both types of exercises resulted in equal range of motion, according to a presenter at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.

A prevention program that improves physical function was effective in the prevention of medial elbow injury in youth baseball players, according to a recently published study.