Rehabilitation News

Postoperative rehabilitation provides no additional benefit after spinal stenosis surgery, according to the results of a 2-year comparison study conducted by Finnish investigators.

For several decades, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, in Downey, Calif., has been a proving ground for orthopedic rehabilitation techniques and pioneers as well as a training arena for those aspiring to enter the field.

Recent results from a randomized, controlled trial suggest that supervised exercise therapy is more effective at reducing severe patellofemoral pain and improving function than rest.

Using peripheral nerve blocks as part of a multi-modal approach to pain management proved successful for managing postoperative pain in patients undergoing total knee replacement at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Researchers in Philadelphia have found a way to prevent heterotopic ossification in animal models by shutting the process off in its early stages.

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons.

Diabetics undergoing total joint replacement often are at a higher risk of experiencing complications after surgery due to various pre-existing health conditions.

Although both operative and nonoperative treatment of displaced medial humeral epicondyle fractures in adolescents helped them return to sport, provided a high degree of post-treatment satisfaction and good clinical outcomes, nonoperative treatment may offer an edge, according to results of a retrospective study.

MIAMI — An antisense sequence that hones in on TS-5 mRNA and is delivered to articular chondrocytes using an adeno-associated virus may have chondroprotective effects, according to the results of an award-winning basic science study presented here.

Based on available scientific evidence, genetic testing to predict warfarin responsiveness was declared not reasonable or necessary by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid in a proposed decision memo dated May 4.