Adding arthroscopic surgery to nonoperative management neither delays nor accelerates the timing of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Some case series show that ...

Background Knee arthroscopy is a common procedure in orthopaedic surgery. In recent times the efficacy of this procedure has been questioned with a number of randomized controlled trials demonstrating ...

Objectives To assess the rates and secular trends of different joint arthroscopies—shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle—in Finland between 1997 and 2016. Design Retrospective nationwide ...

Compared with conservative treatment, arthroscopy did not decrease or delay total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in a 5-year retrospective study of 382 patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Of the 214 patients ...

According to the World Obesity Federation, current trends suggest that 1.13 billion adults will be living with obesity by 2030, an increase of 115% since 2010. DALLAS — As cementless fixation in total ...

A group of physicians and researchers examined the financial impact of third-party reimbursement as the definition for the ICD-9 arthroscopy code changed over time and published their results in The ...

Older adults with knee osteoarthritis had low rates of dedicated non-surgical care between 2005 and 2010, according to a retrospective cohort study published Tuesday. Yet conservative treatments such ...

CJR spending goals remain unchanged after CMS allows outpatient total knee surgery CMS may reassess spending benchmarks for total knee arthroscopy under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement ...

Objectives We investigated trends and regional variation in the rate of arthroscopic knee surgery performed in England from 1997–1998 to 2016–2017. Design Cross-sectional study of the national ...

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