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AAOS Issues New Clinical Practice Guideline for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has approved and released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on “Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee”. These guidelines were explicitly developed to include only treatments which are less [...]
A Patient’s Guide to Reverse Shoulder Replacements
To learn more about the Reverse Shoulder Replacements that can be used for the treatment of irreparable rotator cuff tears and the arthritis that can be associated with irreparable cuff tears check out the links [...]
Interesting Note Regarding Total Knee Replacements in Older Patients
Reuters Health Thursday, November 20, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Total knee replacement not only improves knee mobility in older adults with severe osteoarthritis of the knee, it actually improves the overall level of [...]
A New Take On Stretching
Stretching: The Truth By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS from The NY Times Published: October 31, 2008 WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, [...]
Surgical intervention for end-stage shoulder osteoarthritis: When should it be done?
More and more elderly patients are consulting with orthopedic surgeons for problems related to shoulder pain and function loss that limits their quality of life and desired activities. Q: Surgical intervention for end-stage osteoarthritis (OA) [...]