What Patients are Reading: Combating Chronic Knee Pain

The Chicago Tribune featured an article this week on knee replacement surgery and its effectiveness in treating knee pain. The article looked at osteoarthritis and other conservative therapies and cites a study in The New England Journal of Medicine. Interviews with...

AJMC Reports on Bundled Payment Study

The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) featured a study presented at the 2016 AAOS Annual Meeting on a bundled payment pilot at the NYU Langone Medical Center. “NYU’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery saw reductions in overall length of stay, fewer admissions for...

Virgin Islands Medical Center Suspends Hip, Knee Surgeries

Schneider Regional Medical Center on the US Virgin Island of St. Thomas announced that it has suspended elective total hip and total knee replacement surgeries. According to the St. Croix Source, the medical center decided to remove the services for financial reasons....

Knee Replacement Pioneer Dies at 82

Frank Gunston, MD of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada passed away on February 16, 2016. He is credited with inventing the first artificial knee in 1963. Dr. Gunston worked as an associate of Sir John Charnley, MD through a traveling hip arthroplasty fellowship at...

FDA Approves Stem Options for Hip System

The FDA has granted 510(k) approval for an additional range of stem options for the “MetaFix” hip stem system by Corin. This range includes collared hydroxyapatite-coated stems and short neck variants. View the FDA 501 (k) premarket notification and summary for more...