At the 20th Annual American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons meeting in Dallas, Texas, on November 5 through 7, 2010, there was extensive discussion about the impact of upcoming health care reform ...

As the recent recall of one-piece hip sockets illustrates, new technology is not necessarily better technology. At a recent meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Dallas, Texa ...

Computer assisted surgery, custom cutting guides, and other new technology: where are we headed? As we enter into the era of health care reform with many of the aspects of the new health care legislat ...

In a recent article in the September 2010 Journal of Arthroplasty, surgeons from the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, performed a meta-analysis of the orthopedic literature regarding t ...

A study in the August 2010 Journal of Arthroplasty from the Anderson Orthopedic Research Institute in Alexandria, Virginia, outlined the improvement in outcome based on the number of cases surgeons ha ...

In the August 2010 Journal of Arthroplasty, a meta-analysis review of several different papers reporting on the use of cryotherapy after knee replacement was published. The authors from Australia foun ...

In the August 2010 Journal of Arthroplasty, a study out of the Rothman Clinic compared use of an anterior approach to total hip replacement to that using a direct lateral approach. This was a prospect ...

DePuy, a Johnson and Johnson company, announced on August 26, 2010, the recall of one of their shell head designs sold in the United States. This particular design accounted for a very small percentag ...

An orthopedic implant manufacturer recently obtained approval to advertise that in laboratory tests, their joint replacement lasted 30 years. Unfortunately I think patients are misconstruing this info ...

Computer assisted joint replacement surgery has been around for almost 10-years. This began in Europe and spread to the United States over 5-years ago. There has been quite a bit of enthusiasm regardi ...