Review article suggests that Orthopedists are too conservative with Load Bearing?

Orthopedists too Conservative With Load Bearing? (Orthopedics This Week)
You put a lot of work into that surgery. Why not play it safe and restrict load bearing? Because, says Erik Kubiak, M.D. and collaborators, the patient may likely undergo unnecessary functional decline and prolonged periods of lost productivity…and because medicine should be based on science. Dr. Kubiak, an associate professor at the University of Utah Medical Center, tells OTW, “My colleagues and I have just published a review article in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicating that weight-b...


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