CarboFix Spine, a leader in Carbon Fiber spinal implant innovation, today announced the launch of its CarboClear® Hybrid MIS Pedicle Screw System.
When a periprosthetic joint infection rears its ugly head, the need for speed takes highest priority. But how fast?
Patients who rely on corticosteroids for shoulder pain relief tend to encounter issues earlier than later.
Which will determine your knee replacement outcome more? The alignment of the knee or your knee’s balance?
Three randomized controlled trials plus three case series — all looking at peripheral nerve stimulation as
Head to head test. Ankle replacement versus ankle joint fusion. Which stands tallest after more than a decade?
Solid, detailed, 20,568 patient study nails why some total knee arthroplasty cases fail and then, among the failed cases, why they fail again and what that failure rate looks like.
Mouse study reports strong cartilage regeneration, not fibrous “cartilage” but hyaline cartilage and pain modification using 15-PDGH.
Solid 2-year data for pyrocarbon shoulder hemiarthroplasty — 157 patients. 18 sites.
$2.5 million is a steep cost for not informing patients in a timely manner when their private data is hacked and for getting hacked more than once.
Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) is very good at getting the arm up. External rotation is trickier.
Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) has become the dependable workhorse for a growing list of shoulder problems.
Decent quarter for Stryker despite the cyberattack. Lobo maintaining full year sales and EPS guidance.
A 90.6% avoidance of total hip arthroplasty after ten years for femoroacetabular impingement patients is a great outcome.
Allstate is suing a Florida Orthopedics practice alleging that they engaged in a kickback scheme where a $16,500 radiofrequency ablation bill….
Asymptomatic cervical spinal cord compression presents surgeons with an interesting conundrum.
Interesting GLP-1 study in a large, matched Type 2 diabetes patient cohort.
The rhBMP2 space is crowding up. The latest to add rhBMP2 to its portfolio is DePuy Synthes.
rKA matched or beat mechanical alignment on short-term function, but tibial loosening still matters.
Trauma surgeons have long embraced a simple philosophy when it comes to preventing infection in difficult tibial fractures: If some local antibiotics are good, maybe more are better.
OrthAlign’s portable large joint navigation system is now FDA cleared for ambulatory surgery centers.
Patent litigation usually exits the room one filing at a time. Life Spine says this one left cleaner than that.
DePuy Synthes just made a strategic call and investment in a different OR imaging setup.
Patients once stuck between weight loss advice, diabetes management, BMI cutoffs, and joint pain now arrive with a medication class that can move weight and glucose in ways orthopedics cannot ignore.
Aditya Humad, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the CFO of SpineFrontier, Inc., pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Young patients — average age 7 years — with early onset scoliosis present surgeons with an entirely unique set of problems.
Thirty years is a long time for a fracture classification to survive in orthopedics without being buried under subtypes, modifiers, committee language, and a small pile of “helpful” additions.
The surgical workforce leak is not just waiting politely by the retirement cake.
Overall physician compensation had a better year in 2025, and orthopedic surgeons retained their perennial spot near the top of the list.
Two-hundred-ninety patients with degenerative were treated with either autograft or Cerapedics Inc.’s PearlMatrix P-15 Peptide Enhanced at 33 U.S. sites.
21.7% misdiagnosis because the cause of back pain was so easy to explain away? Seriously? We’re talking postpartum women with back pain.
Two millimeters, roughly the size of a sesame seed or the thickness of a nickel, may not sound like much.
Patients with lateral epicondylitis probably do not care whether the shock wave is radial, focused, low-energy, or medium-energy.
In “failing” this study delivered an important pain management insight for total hip arthroplasty surgeons…
Injectable peptides have had a terrific marketing run in the worlds of sports medicine and knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Iliac crest autograft may not win because mature bone cells survive the trip. It may win because the right progenitors DO.
Todays AI models, do not have either critical thinking nor life experience logic. They do math ok, but not user misdirection.
Two rapidly growing synthetic biomaterials platforms, Atreon Orthopedics and RenovoDerm, have merged and the synergies are clear.
The money trail was not exactly subtle — DOJ says French laundered about $225,000 in cash from a Mississippi bank.
Fewer ortho surgeries, worse outcomes for shoulder arthroplasty?
New 1.2 million population study looks at patients who need both hip arthroplasty and lumbar spine decompression, if not also fusion.
Rod fracture risk, it turns out, is the result of a stacked series of risk elements, starting with anterior column manipulation…
UKA versus TKA — but this time the independent variables are robotic assists and remote monitoring.
Hip preservation surgery is rarely one problem wearing one name tag.
Left over PMMA cement in an autoclaved tray. Lots of problems with that. But is bacteria one of them?
Pincer-type femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has always had a measurement problem.
With a clear endoscopy channel, how does the practice of endoscopic spine surgery change, if at all?
Unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures rarely give surgeons the luxury of a simple plan.
