(HealthDay)—Intravenous corticosteroids are both safe and effective when used perioperatively in total knee or hip arthroplasty, with benefits including less pain, vomiting, and nausea, and fewer opioids, according to a ...
Sep 14, 2017
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Ninety-eight percent of total knee replacement (TKR) patients who were working before surgery returned to work after surgery, and of those patients, 89 percent returned to their previous position, according to new research ...
Mar 21, 2013
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When you think of hip replacement surgery, you generally envision an older adult with painful osteoarthritis. But the procedure is also used for younger patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) whose joints have ...
Nov 17, 2014
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More than 7 million Americans are living with an artificial (prosthetic) knee (4.7 million) or hip (2.5 million), which may have significant future implications in terms of the need for ongoing patient care, according to ...
Mar 14, 2014
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Hip replacement surgery not only improves quality of life but is also associated with increased life expectancy, compared to people of similar age and sex, reports a study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (CORR), ...
Feb 28, 2018
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As more Americans are living well into their 90s, the number of nonagenarian total hip replacement (THR) candidates continues to increase. In the study, "Total Hip Arthroplasty Proves Safe for Nonagenarian Patients," presented ...
Mar 11, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Trends in operative management of femoral neck fractures by orthopedic surgeons applying for board certification have changed over time, according to research published in the Sept. 3 issue of The Journal of ...
Sep 22, 2014
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The annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons was held from Feb. 12 to 16 in San Francisco and attracted approximately 30,000 participants from around the world. The conference highlighted recent advances ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Women appear to have a higher risk of implant failure than men following total hip replacement after considering patient-, surgery-, surgeon-, volume- and implant-specific risk factors, according to a report published Online ...
Feb 19, 2013
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A new study appearing in the April issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) showed that the economic downturns in the 2000s did not substantially influence the national growth trends for hip and knee arthroplasty ...
Apr 2, 2014
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