Dr. Matthew Squire answers the question: 'Debridement/Lavage For Rheumatoid?' — -- Question: What is debridement or lavage (via arthroscopic surgery) and when is it best used to treat pain ...

There have been dramatic changes in orthopedics during this past century. Tuberculosis and polio have virtually been eliminated, thus relegating to history many of the operations that were commonplace ...

About 700,000 people may be getting a knee surgery each year that doesn’t work as well as they had hoped, new research suggests. In fact, it may be no better than a "sham" procedure. The surgery is an ...

When shoulder injuries fail to improve with rest, physical therapy or medication, minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery is an option for treating many common shoulder problems. Arthroscopy often ...

Patients who underwent knee surgery using minimally invasive “needle arthroscopy” needed half the opioids to manage pain the ...

Correspondence to Reed A C Siemieniuk, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L8, USA; reed.siemieniuk{at}medportal.ca We make ...

July 11, 2002 — Arthroscopic knee lavage or debridement was no better than placebo surgery in a randomized controlled trial described in the July 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "The ...

Every patient's knee arthroscopy recovery timeline is different. In general, you can expect to return to the full extent of your usual activities within six to eight weeks after the surgery, but ...

Arthroscopic surgery or arthroscopy, is a medical procedure used only by orthopaedic surgeons to analyse joints, identify problems, and treat them. Its minimally invasive technique has developed for ...

About 750,000 arthroscopic knee surgeries are carried out in the United States each year at an annual cost of about $3 billion. That advice, which is part of the BMJ’s “Rapid Recommendation” ...

Borussia Mönchengladbach captain Tim Kleindienst’s comeback from major knee surgery has unfortunately been delayed. The ...

Nadal joked that he won’t be ready for Melbourne, and realistically, he’s probably right. Recovering from hand surgery takes ...