A paper presented at the 19th annual American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons meeting in Dallas Texas, November 2009, outlined the use of an injection of an anesthetic agent into the hip joint to ...

A paper presented by Dr. Bozic, at the 19th annual meeting of the Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, pointed out the importance of hospital and surgeon volumes and process standardization with rega ...

Highly cross-linked polyethelene was first introduced for use in total hip replacement in 1998. Since that time, there has been laboratory data and early and midterm follow-up documenting decreased we ...

A study presented at the 19th annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, reviewed a large Medicare administrative data base, which included 37,867 primary total hip replaceme ...

Anterior approach total hip replacement has generated quite a bit of interest in the lay press and as well as on the Internet. There have been numerous success stories, but also recent reports of a mo ...

In the October 26, 2009 issue of Time magazine, Jeffry Kluger reviews different options for payment structures for physicians. He cites several clinics that have emphasized outcomes over the tradition ...

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 ...