For years, hand surgeons treating advanced thumb arthritis have relied on removing the arthritic trapezium to relieve pain. Replacing the damaged joint has offered another possibility, but implants ...

Hrayr Basmajian, MD, has received a Gold Award at the 2026 TITAN Health Awards for his work in cosmetic and reconstructive limb lengthening. Dr. Basmajian is an orthopedic surgeon and founder of ...

A spine surgeon who performs more procedures generates more relative value units. But what about one who prevents an unnecessary operation, reduces complications or gets patients to the right ...

Spine and orthopedic care has long been paid under fee-for-service arrangement, which reimburses physicians and facilities for each visit, test and procedure. Payers, employers and CMS are ...

One spine surgeon estimates he generated $20 million in annual revenue for a trauma center. But as more spine procedures become candidates for outpatient surgery, that figure illustrates a growing ...

A federal judicial panel centralized 49 lawsuits into two manufacturer-specific proceedings, again declining to put all spinal cord stimulator litigation before one judge. The U.S. Judicial Panel on ...

Selective thoracic fusion preserved more lumbar motion than nonselective fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with Lenke C-type lumbar curves, but it left larger residual curves and ...

Kenneth Chakour, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Fox Valley Orthopedics in Geneva, Ill., became the first physician in Illinois and among the first nationwide to use new auto-planning software for the ...

For patients with deteriorating joints, the traditional advice has often been to manage the pain until it becomes unbearable enough to justify replacement. But what if waiting is part of the problem?

As more patients taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic seek spine surgery, surgeons need to look beyond weight loss to consider how changes in muscle and bone quality could affect surgical outcomes ...

Leo Kroonen, MD, plans to step down as chief of orthopedic surgery at Kaiser Permanente San Diego at the end of the year, according to an Oct. 15 LinkedIn post. Dr. Kroonen has spent more than eight ...

When it comes to spinal fusion, surgeons say the challenge is increasingly knowing when less surgery becomes too little. From stable degenerative spondylolisthesis and lumbar stenosis to cervical ...