Rehabilitation News

Orthopedics Today has highlighted the ten most important stories of the year to keep your practice up-to-date regarding osteoarthritis.

Orthopedics Today features the 10 stories deemed the most important to emerge from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

AMSTERDAM — A multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial examining the use of platelet-rich plasma injections in athletes for the treatment of acute hamstring injuries has shown the injections were no more effective than placebo.

Bacterin recently announced the addition of Robert Di Silvio as president of the company.

Use of regional anesthesia was associated with a modestly shorter length of stay when compared with use of general anesthesia, according to study results.

Bioventus recently launched the next generation of its EXOGEN Ultrasound Bone Healing System.

SEATTLE — Most young in-season intercollegiate contact athletes with anterior glenohumeral instability can be expected to return to sport 1 week after nonoperative treatment, according to data presented here.

SEATTLE — A study presented here at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting found that performance among elite baseball pitchers decreased following UCL reconstruction.

Researchers found in a new study that injections of glucocorticoid combined with lidocaine, a local anesthetic, had about the same effect in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis as injections of lidocaine alone.

DePuy Synthes recently announced the new DePuy Synthes Advantage, a suite of solutions that focuses on helping to drive optimal clinical and economic outcomes while improving patient satisfaction.