Cleveland Clinic Spins Off Orthopedics Preoperative Planning Software Company, Called Custom Orthopaedic Solutions

Cleveland Clinic spins off orthopedics preoperative planning software company (MedCityNews)   Cleveland Clinic Innovations has spun off a new startup: a company that’s developing software to help orthopedic surgeons better plan operations. Custom Orthopaedic Solutions‘ in-development OrthosVis software imports a patient’s CT scan and then produces a 3-D model that physicians can use to rotate, zoom and view cross-sectional [...]

There Is an Overuse of MRIs by Sports Medicine Orthopedists

         Sports Medicine Said to Overuse M.R.I.’s (Gina Kolata @ NY Times) Dr. James Andrews, a widely known sports medicine orthopedist in Gulf Breeze, Fla., wanted to test his suspicion that M.R.I.’s, the scans given to almost every injured athlete or casual exerciser, might be a bit misleading. So he scanned the shoulders [...]

J&J DePuy Jumps Into the Customized Knee Replacement Market With Its TruMatch System

    DePuy Joins Customized Knee Surgery Club (written by Walter Eisner @ OTW) DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. has jumped into the customized knee replacement surgery market with the FDA clearance for the use of its TruMatch Personalized Solutions with the company’s Sigma Fixed-Bearing Knee System. The company joins Biomet, Inc. and Stryker Corp., among others, with [...]

6 Surgeon Tips on How to Use Stryker’S New ShapeMatch System With the Triathlon Total Knee

  6 Points on Patient-Specific Knee Replacement Using Stryker’s ShapeMatch Technology (written by Laura Miller @ Beckers) The Stryker ShapeMatch Cutting Guides for use with the Triathlon Total Knee System was released in the US about three months ago and has been used around the world for many years to provide surgeons with a preoperative planning [...]

X-Rays Before Hip Arthroscopy May Predict the Need for Total Hip in the Future

Radiographic findings may be used to predict likelihood of THR following THA (OrthoSuperSite) Preoperative radiographs may be effectively used to gauge the prognosis for patient outcomes as they relate to osteoarthritis following arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement, according to a study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Presence of significant joint space [...]

A Test for Detection of Early Joint Replacement Failure

Test for Joint Replacement Failure (OTW) Joint replacement patients won’t start beeping, but he or she could have an early warning system…A new test from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) shows promise for detecting the early stages of a major cause of failure in joint replacement [...]

3D X-Rays for Lower Limb Approved by FDA

FDA Clearance for EOS imaging (OTW)

Glow-in-the-Dark Doc: Radiation Exposure – Dr. Brian D. Giordano Has Advice for Fellow Orthopedists

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May 18, 2012

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