The Second Edition of the JBJS Virtual Recertification Course , in association with the Miller Review Course, is now available. Featuring 15 updated modules, the course now includes the option to purc...
Early on, patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) often get sufficient pain relief with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. But as the condition progresses, many opt for knee replacement. Although kn...
According to Medscape (registration required) and other media reports, President-Elect Donald Trump has tapped Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA) to be the next secretary of the US Department of Health and Hum...
In the November 16, 2016 edition of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery , Kim et al . improve our understanding of how blood flow is restored to the necrotic femoral head in Legg-Calve-Perthes disease...
Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature during the previous year in 13 subspecialties. Click here fo...
One of the observations that I have made during my years in academic medicine is that the more popular a topic appears to be in the literature, the less likely we are to really understand it. After al...
This month’s Image Quiz from the JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants ( JOPA ) presents the case of a 7-year-old girl who sustained a wrist injury from a fall off of monkey bars. An i...
How best to treat clavicle fractures remains a controversial question in orthopaedics. A study by Huttunen et al. in the November 2, 2016 JBJS does not resolve that controversy, but it sheds a little...
The November 2, 2016 issue of JBJS contains the second of a series of personal essays in which orthopaedic clinicians tell a story about a high-impact lesson they learned that has altered their worldv...
Ulnar shortening osteotomy is a widely accepted procedure for surgical treatment of ulnar impaction syndrome, but many techniques require special instrumentation to achieve accurate shortening, adequa...
