Orthopedic Surgery Medical Library Stories & Articles

If you're at all a sports fan, or an athlete yourself, you've probably heard of the anterior cruciate ligament. It's commonly injured. Now a new study shows what happens to NFL players who are sidelined by their acl's, and it's not good news... ( Read more about ACL Injuries with NFL Players | Orthopedics)

Arthritis, which affects nearly 80 percent of Americans at some point in their lives, is usually thought of as a disorder afflicting mainly older people. But doctors have been seeing it cropping up in younger and younger... ( Read more about Age Dropping for Arthritis Onset)

For 25 years Robert Reid kept active by practicing karate, playing football, softball, and basketball. But, his love for sports took a toll on his body. Robert developed arthritis in his knees and would need surgery.

Doctors have developed a lifesaving treatment for a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Pompe disease. Pompe is an inherited disorder--both parents have to have the defective gene, which is not a common thing. Pompe is a rare and fatal nerve... ( Read more about Amazing Gene Treatment)

Joint replacements are a major dimension of the orthopedics specialty, but they may be replaced in about 15 years by biological products that stimulate tissue and bone growth, according to a leading prognosticator. "We will be a little in the... ( Read more about Biological Materials Seen Ousting Joint Replacements)

Doctors are finally beginning to use cartilage transplants to fix damaged shoulder joints instead of relying on arthroscopic surgery or impermanent implants to do the job. But only a few hospitals nationwide have taken up the practice. "For a... ( Read more about Cartilage Transplants Help Repair Shoulder Joints)

They’re the guys on the baseball diamond that get the brunt of the bangup: catcher’s get run over, they destroy their knees by crouching all day long. And now, there’s evidence that they suffer significant hand trauma, perhaps, because their... ( Read more about Catcher's Mitts Cushioning)

Children’s playground safety is an issue that requires more attention to ensure that children’s broken bones don’t lead to complications that trouble them for the rest of their lives. 10 year old Renee Novelli is a bundle of energy. When she’s... ( Read more about Children Breaking Bones)

“It is burning and tingling that is how it feels all the time and then there are other pains where it is shooting pains and you feel like someone is stabbing you,” says Diana Baez. Diana Baez is about to have computer aided knee surgery that... ( Read more about Computer Aided Surgery)

Contrary to conventional wisdom, total hip replacements fail just as much, if not more so, from implant dislocation or infection than from the wearing out of the bearing surface, according to recent research. While many thousands of people... ( Read more about Hip Replacements Fail Due to Implant Irregularities, Infection)

If you have osteoarthritis of the knees, with all of the pain and loss of flexibility that entails, chances are your doctor has recommended arthroscopic surgery. This is a procedure in which the surgeon inserts a scope into the knee and cleans... ( Read more about How to Save Your Knees From Arthroscopic Surgery)

The very joint implants that bring pain relief and restore freedom of motion to patients’ extremities can be their own undoing, setting off a metal-induced immunological defense mechanism that causes the implants to loosen and fail,... ( Read more about Metal-Particle Inflammation Causes Joint-Implant Failure)

Injecting a patient’s own bone-marrow stem cells into the spine using multiple routes helps to restore some function and quality of life to victims of spinal cord injury with no objectionable side effects, a recent study revealed.New Bone-Marrow-Cell Therapy Aids Spine Repair)

There’s new hope for ovarian cancer patients. Doctors are saying that giving chemo through the abdomen rather than through the vein should now be the way many ovarian cancer patients are treated. This is actually an old method to deliver chemo;... ( Read more about New Ovarian Cancer Treatment)

If you were faced with having heart surgery, would you want your doctor to capture images of your heart so you can see your organ first hand?

It’s perhaps the worst thing parents could experience: finding their newborn baby has quietly died while sleeping overnight. Sadly, this happens too often as a result of SIDS--sudden infant death syndrome. Although some specific cases have been... ( Read more about SIDS Recommendations)

Summer is now here, and it’s an opportunity for kids who are involved in one, two, maybe three sports to get a bit of rest. But a lot of kids go year round in their athletics now; it’s one reason for the rise in sports injuries in kids. More... ( Read more about Sports Injuries and Children)

People who received surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff experienced good shoulder function and relief from pain over the long term, even after the recurrence of a tear, a recent small study demonstrated. A rotator cuff is a group of four muscles... ( Read more about Surgery Reliably Repairs Torn Rotator Cuffs)

British scientists have created a dissolvable ceramic bone substitute that, through a technique for building automobile catalytic converters, can be made highly porous so that natural bone cells can infiltrate it and use it as scaffolding for... ( Read more about Synthetic Bone May Assist Implant Surgery)

With all the extraordinary array of muscles, bones, ligaments and nerves that cluster in the shoulder, it's sometimes called the "spaghetti junction" of our bodies. And with this dizzying array of layered elements, it's not surprising that the... ( Read more about The Shoulder and Its Many Sources of Pain)

The backyard trampoline is a common sight in the suburbs. But is it completely safe? You would think that if kids can play on hard ground and concrete surfaces, that a soft surface like a trampoline would be very safe. But the fact is, there... ( Read more about Trampoline Injuries)

By Dr. Chitti Moorthy In recent years, Radiation Oncology has made great strides in cancer treatment. Alone or in combination with other treatments, radiation therapy is dramatically raising cancer cure rates. Leading medical centers provide... ( Read more about Treatment of Cancer with Radiation Oncology)

A simple set of new warm-up exercises provides young athletes considerable protection against season-ending knee injuries, according to a recent sports-medicine study. The findings, presented by scientists at the University of North Carolina at... ( Read more about Warm-up Routine Helps Youth Athletes Avoid Knee Injuries)