At a recent course, sponsored by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on knee replacement, the faculty discussed recommendations for activity following knee replacement surgery.  There was uni ...

Enthusiasm about partial knee or unicompartmental replacement continues. Over the last 12 months, we have switched from using fixed bearing unicompartmental replacements to a mobile-bearing unicompart ...

As the Health Care debate continues in Congress it makes all of us involved in the delivery of health care to stop and question how do we pay for new technology? Evolutionary changes seem to be absorb ...

We were involved in a study comparing computer assisted knee replacement with total knee arthroplasty using traditional instruments for alignment and implant placement. This was conducted in 2006 and ...

Several authors have evaluated different techniques to determine the effectiveness of new technologies. In an article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in 2006. Kevin Bozic, M.D., and ...

In a recent "Time" magazine, August 17, 2009, an article titled "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin", by John Cloud, outlines how people who regularly exericise are at significantly lower risk for multi ...

In the June issue of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons monthly magazine, several facts regarding health care were reviewed. These included: * The fact that the national expenditure per capi ...

Growing old can be a process of giving up a little bit on the fringes. You stop doing certain things like using stairs, carrying groceries and before you know it you have lost a significant amount of ...

Obesity is becoming a significant problem in the United States. From 1960 to 2000 the rate of obesity more than doubled from 12.8% to 30%. Obesity is defined as a body mass index greater than 30. This ...

At a symposium held during the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, 2009, the role of gender in the development of osteoarthritis was reviewed. One study showed that the incidence ...