Results showed patients with severe hip osteoarthritis who undergo lumbar spinal fusion may be at increased risk for reoperation and preemptive total hip arthroplasty may be warranted for this population. Emily S. Mills, MD, and colleagues from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California used the 5% Medicare Part B claims database to study data from 10,016 patients
Published results showed increased activity on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, was associated with higher online ratings for shoulder and elbow surgeons.Researchers used the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons physician directory to analyze the relationship between social media activity and online ratings for 385 fellowship-trained shoulder
Patients with failed spinal anesthesia prior to total hip or knee arthroplasty had inferior clinical outcomes compared with patients who had successful spinal anesthesia and similar outcomes vs. those who received general anesthesia.Researchers analyzed data from a consecutive cohort of 4,482 patients who underwent primary THA (n = 2,003) or TKA (n = 2,479) at a single institution between January
Compared with education alone, telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy did not significantly improve functional or pain outcomes for patients with traumatic lower extremity injuries, according to published results.Researchers from the Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium performed a multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 325 patients (mean age, 36.9 years) who presented to a
Published results showed patients who received bone marrow stimulation with arthroscopic rotator cuff repair had similar functional, clinical and radiographic outcomes at 2 years compared with a control group.Researchers randomly assigned 204 patients with small, medium or large full-thickness rotator cuff tears to undergo arthroscopic rotator cuff repair alone (n = 101) or with bone marrow