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Evidence based literature that is truly important to your orthopaedic clinical practice.
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
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 initial lateral radiograph is shown here. Clinicians attempted a closed reduction...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
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 light on it. The authors analyzed a validated Swedish hospital-discharge...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
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 worldview, enhanced them personally, and positively affected the care they provide as...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
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, adequate fixation, and sufficient rotational control. In the November 2, 2016 issue...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. In response to a recent JAMA study,the following two commentaries come from Chad Krueger, MD, and Shahriar Rahman, MS. “Hmmm…. Maybe I’m operating on too many ankle fractures.” That was my first thought as I read the...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
The recently launched JBJS Knee Spotlight offers highly relevant and potentially practice-changing knee content from the most trusted source of orthopaedic information. Here are the five JBJS articles to which you will have full-text access through the Knee Spotlight during the...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
The evolution of more rational educational programs and other societal changes point to a future where an increasing number of orthopaedic surgeons will be female. Thankfully, we have made gains in adjusting the medical community’s perspective on careers in orthopaedic surgery....
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
Despite the remarkable success of modern treatments for congenital clubfoot, including the Ponseti method, some kids still end up with a rigid residual deformity after walking age. In the October 19. 2016 edition of JBJS, Dragoni et al. investigated the Ponseti treatment in 44...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
OrthoBuzz regularly brings you a current commentary on a “classic” article from The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. These articles have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editors of The Journal because of their long-standing significance to the orthopaedic...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
This month’s Image Quiz from the JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants(JOPA) presents the case of a teenage girl who dislocated her patella while playing volleyball. The quiz provides four postreduction images, two radiographs and two fat-suppressed MRI scans,... Page 6 of 17
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