It’s spring. Have you started your Meaningful Use reporting yet? More important, have you begun reporting at all? “Say the words Meaningful Use to most orthopedists, and they usually roll their eyes or shake their heads,” says Cheyenne Brinson, MBA, CPA, a KarenZupko & Associates consultant who has been advising surgical practices on Meaningful Use since the program’s inception. Although many o...

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), sometimes termed acetabular rim syndrome, results from chronic mechanical abutment between the femoral head-neck junction and the acetabulolabral complex. Orthopedists have begun to recognize FAI as a cause of pain, instability and progressive hip dysfunction. Because FAI is implicated in the development of osteoarthritis in young individuals, orthopedists ha...

BACKGROUND Dietary supplements are regularly used by a majority of the American population, and usage by health professionals is also common. There is considerable interest in usage patterns within the population and in the reasons for using dietary supplements. The "Life...supplemented" Healthcare Professionals 2008 Impact Study (HCP Impact Study) surveyed usage of dietary supplements by physi...

Report on the 1st National congress of orthopedists and traumatologist Austria, 12.05–14.05.2022, Graz, Austria

UNLABELLED Acute lateral ankle sprain (ALAS) is a common injury, but its treatment has yet to be firmly established. The purpose of this study was to investigate how Brazilian Orthopedists (including residents) manage the diagnosis, classification, treatment and complications of ALAS. METHODS A multiple-choice questionnaire was developed with the aim of addressing the main aspects of the trea...

OBJECTIVE To map out the approaches used by Brazilian orthopedists in treating complete tears of the rotator cuff. METHODS A multiple-choice questionnaire was handed out to 232 orthopedists at the 45th Brazilian Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology. Of these, 207 were returned but five were incomplete and were excluded. Thus, 202 questionnaires were used. RESULTS Among the orthopedists ...

970 specialists from 114 cities of the Russian Federation, including 770 delegates, took part in work congress, which was held on September 18-20, 2002 Novosibirsk. Participants included 407 members regional associations orthopedic traumatologists. The guests congress were representatives Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus (17 people total), Germany (one).

OBJECTIVE To assess the opinion of Brazilian orthopedists surgeons on the diagnosis and treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). METHODS A questionnaire was sent to several orthopedic societies around the world, including the Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (SBOT). This questionnaire was sent electronically and included questions on many topics related to FAI. RESU...

The upper-middle tibia is the mult iple growth section of benign and malignant neoplasm, which is easy to result in bone defect after tumorectomy and it is a serious problem in orthopaedics. We reported a case about a huge benign or potential malignant tumor( giant cell tumor of bone) in upper-middle tibia and contrasted the advantage between the jade prosthesis and the allograft. Initially, th...