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Most young athletes don't get enough sleep - and that may significantly affect their sports performance, according to a paper in the November issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports, official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The journal is published in the Lippinco...

Kids today are becoming focused on single sports at a younger age and are likely to play their sport year-round. More time playing sports leads to an increase in the chance of traumatic sports injuries. It also leads to more overuse injuries in the shoulder, elbow, knee and hip. Here are some steps ...

The advent of ankle arthroscopy has eliminated the need for open arthrotomy for a number of disorders ranging from loose bodies, soft tissue impingement, osteochondral lesions, and even some arthrodesis. The critical question in regard to the patient described above is to determine if the lesion is ...

There are 3 distinct fracture patterns that affect the base of the fifth metatarsal. Unfortunately, the terminology and descriptions of these injuries remain confusing in the orthopedic literature. Diagnostic clarity is critical as it dictates treatment recommendations and prognosis.

It is hypothesized that radial head excision causes bone density changes as a result of asymmetric stress distributions, consequently leading to osteophyte formation. In this study, we sought to quantitatively compare the 3-dimensional bone density and stress distributions between operative and non-...

Continuous passive motion may result in a greater range of motion and faster recovery compared with physical therapy for some patients after arthroscopic release of elbow contractures, according to a presented study.

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics has gifted the AAOS Shoulder & Elbow Registry (SER) its Shoulder Arthroplasty Predictive (SHARP) Model, a tool designed to help surgeons predict postoperative shoulder arthroplasty outcomes.

According to a retrospective study from researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), patients who underwent surgery 6 weeks to 12 months after a rotator cuff tear diagnosis had better outcomes than those who delayed surgery for more than 12 months.

Dr. Stephen Howell answers ICJR s questions about calipered kinematic alignment total knee arthroplasty, including the learning curve, how to set the ...

According to the findings of new study presented at the ACR Convergence 2020, the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology: Patients with knee OA who had corticosteroid injections did not show faster progression of OA or of needing TKA than patients who had hyaluronic acid injections, ...