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• The Relationship Between Shoulder Stiffness and Rotator Cuff Healing

  Posted in: Healthcare News | Posted on: 23-Jan-2018

  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.

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• BLOG: Hardware complications in revision ACL reconstruction take careful consideration

  Posted in: Healthcare News | Posted on: 23-Jan-2018

  Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is a commonly performed orthopedic procedure with more than 100,000 reconstructions performed annually in the United States. Despite improved surgical techniques and rehabilitation protocols, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction failure rates range from 5% to 25%.

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• Concomitant rotator cuff, biceps repair led to greater improvement in PROs

  Posted in: Healthcare News | Posted on: 23-Jan-2018

  Despite inferior baseline patient-reported outcomes, patients who underwent rotator cuff repair with concomitant biceps procedure had greater improvement in outcomes at 1-year postoperatively compared with patients who underwent rotator cuff repair alone, according to results.

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• Study finds predictors for ACL injury are dissimilar between male and female athletes

  Posted in: Healthcare News | Posted on: 05-Dec-2017

  Except for increased anterior-posterior knee laxity, results from this study indicated female athletes and male athletes were not similar with regard to predictors for first-time noncontact ACL injury.

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• First FDA-approved stem cell trial for shoulder injuries reaches full enrollment

  Posted in: Healthcare News | Posted on: 05-Dec-2017

  The trial is the first in the United States to offer an FDA-approved adipose-derived stem cell trial for shoulder injuries. The trial opened in Fargo, North Dakota, and Sioux Falls in December 2016. In this trial, one's own adipose stem cells are used to determine if they can repair partial thickness rotator cuff tears.

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