Skiing safety fact sheet Preventing ACL injuries. Athletes should incorporate into their training, drills that focus on balance as well as those that link strength and speed to cause immediate muscle reactions. Patients will benefit from the surgical toolbox of the future.
New procedures repair seniors' fragility fractures.
Orthopaedic surgeons are relieving back pain in older people by injecting bone substitute material to stabilize recently collapsed vertebrae, Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD, announced here today. Advances in sports medicine return people to activity sooner. Thirty years ago, when an athlete sustained a serious knee or shoulder injury that required surgery, it most often meant his or her career was over. Today, advances in orthopaedic surgery make it more likely that athletes will return to their sport quickly. New apparatus enables paraplegics to stand, walk.