Kinematic MRI—the ability for clinicians to see joint movement captured on MRI, and weight-bearing MRI may be coming to an office near you. What’s the difference between Kinematic and supine MRI? For some patients, it makes ALL the difference. Read more here.
RBC’s excellent spine surgeon survey, now in its eighth year, was released a couple of weeks ago and it provided many insightful, even surprising, results. Which products are spine surgeons most excited about? What do they think is happening with reimbursement? Is their business growing or declining? Here are RBC’s answers.
New study from Wash U studied a peptide nanoparticle which significantly lowered chondrocyte apoptosis and reactive synovitis of the knee in an animal model. The mechanism of action is what makes this study very, very interesting. We found Dr. Pham’s study in the September Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New data from both animal and human studies is pointing to an exciting innovation for rotator cuff injuries—collagen implants that activate tendon growth. Inventor Dr. Steven Arnoczky reports on biopsies from patients who’d had the collagen implant.
Free prosthetics for more than 15, 000 needy children and it’s Wall Street’s Hedge Funds that helped put it all together. You GOTTA go to Rocktoberfest in New York City on October 27 and join the Hedgies to support ALTSO (A Leg To Stand On). It’s the best thing you can do.
The hype surrounding Zimmer Biomet’s Vanguard ID had us double checking with our surgeon friends. They told us this is actually a particularly interesting innovation in total knee arthroplasty. Apparently, the venerable Vanguard knee is still capable of a few new tricks. Here’s what we learned.
