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SCR surgical technique allows athletes to return to sports
The arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction (SCR) surgical technique can offer patients with irreparable rotator cuff repairs the opportunity to return to sports and jobs...
Minutes of daily running link with better bone health in women
Accumulating just one to two minutes a day of high-intensity weight-bearing physical exercise is associated with better bone health in women, found a University of...
Same pain relief for both the obese and normal weight after joint replacement
A University of Massachusetts Medical School study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief...
Anti-inflammatory with osteoporosis drug lowers hip fracture risk
Among older patients using medium to high doses of the anti-inflammatory steroid prednisolone, treatment with the osteoporosis drug alendronate was associated with a significantly...
Gunshot wounds place hefty burden on SA's orthopaedic healthcare resources
In 2012‚ Groote Schuur Hospital spent a total of R2.7m, excluding salaries, on the 111 patients it treated for orthopaedic gunshot wounds, found a Univeristy of...
TKA and THA are cost-effective interventions
A systematic review finds that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) are cost-effective interventions, especially when not delayed, compared with non-operative...
Strong recommendation against knee arthroscopy
Knee arthroscopy is strongly recommended against in almost all patients with degenerative knee disease, a panel of international experts report in The BMJ. A...
Total hip replacement improves quality of life for at least 5 years
Patients undergoing total hip replacement experience meaningful and lasting improvements in quality of life for at least five years after the procedure, reports a...
Surgical approaches to tennis elbow not always beneficial
Surgical approaches to treating tennis elbow may not offer additional benefit to patients, as discussed in research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for...
Lifetime risk of revision surgery following joint replacement
University of Oxford researchers have introduced the novel approach of lifetime risk, which measures the risk of revision surgery following joint replacement, rather than...
New evidence-based treatment guidelines for lower back pain
The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends in an evidence-based clinical practice guideline that physicians and patients should treat acute or subacute low back...
Drug tx to prevent hip fractures not viable
Drug treatment to prevent hip fracture is neither viable nor cost effective, with current strategy inefficient and associated with considerable harms, an international team of researchers found.
Osteoporosis link to sudden hearing loss
People with osteoporosis may be almost twice as likely to develop sudden hearing loss.
Older male smokers at risk of osteoporosis
In a large study of middle-aged to elderly smokers, men were more likely than women to have osteoporosis and fractures of their vertebrae.
Shorter hip fracture hospitalisation ups mortality
Older patients are more likely to die following a short hospital stay for a hip fracture, a large Swedish study has found. Patients who stayed in hospital for up to 5 days had twice the risk of death compared with patients staying 15 days or more.
No lasting surgical benefit for spinal stenosis
While earlier reports suggested an advantage to surgery for patients with spinal stenosis, a recent study finds no significant difference in pain, functioning, of disability at eight years' follow-up between surgery and conservative treatment.
Active youngsters have stronger bones
Young people who are more active growing up tend to end up with stronger bones, although many older teenagers don’t get enough exercise to...