I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a knee replacement because they are above a certain BMI cutoff. Here’s a familiar scenario: A patient with a high body ...

TidalHealth and POA integrate services to improve orthopaedic care and expand access across Delmarva starting April 1.

Preoperative medical optimization of patients is an approach orthopedic surgeons can use to reduce postoperative complications and improve the overall safety of procedures they perform. “If we asked ...

The focus of the residency training program of The Joseph Barnhart Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine is to educate residents to become highly skilled, compassionate and ...

Every year, over 3.5 million shoulder and knee orthopedic surgeries occur in the United States due to injuries or joint disease, marking them as one of the country’s most frequent surgeries. This ...

Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on January ...

With the aim to expand and develop scientific talent in academic orthopaedic surgery, the UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery offers programs to medical students who have an interest in research and ...

This is part two of a STAT investigation on the lack of diversity in orthopedic surgery. For part one, click here. Just last month, spine surgeon Shaina Lipa tweeted that she is the first Black woman ...