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A new study from Penn Medicine, which compared outcome variations in acute and post-acute care facilities, suggests that for older adults hospitalized with hip fracture, the quality of the post-acute care they receive has a greater impact on long-term recovery than the care they received at the hosp...

A porous implant has potential to extend life of hip replacements by mimicking quality of real bones, say investigators. A newly developed hip replacement that will last longer and create fewer problems for the people who receive them than those currently in use, they add.

Patients with enthesopathy of the extensor carpi radialis brevis who had symptomatic and asymptomatic elbows commonly had increased MRI signal, according to recently published results.

The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term outcome of a linked semiconstrained elbow arthroplasty implant design in patients with RA.

In patients with closed fractures and minimal comorbidities, outpatient ORIF was associated with reduced risk of select 30-day medical morbidity and no difference in surgical morbidity, reoperations, and readmissions relative to inpatient.

Retear and stiffness are not uncommon outcomes of rotator cuff repair. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between rotator cuff repair healing and shoulder stiffness.

Recently published results showed shoulder injuries were common in men s lacrosse, with a high incidence of acromioclavicular injuries, as well as lab...

A decrease in functional outcomes following total knee arthroplasty and a decrease in mental health scores following total hip arthroplasty correlated with patient-reported metal allergy, according to recently published results.

Recently published results showed an 86% failure rate among patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty with a specific modular-neck femoral stem and indicated elevated serum cobalt ion levels as predictive of failure.

In patients with knee osteoarthritis, quantitative MRI found chondroitin sulfate was superior to celecoxib in the reduction of cartilage volume loss, according to results of a 2-year exploratory study.