(WSJ) – A blown anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is the fear of athletes everywhere, or almost anyone who has a knee. Treatment for a torn ACL typically involves surgically reconstructing the ligament with harvested tissue. […]
(Modern Healthcare) – Medical device company Arthrex agreed to pay $16 million to settle allegations that it paid a doctor to boost sales, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday. […]
(BONEZONE) – The Innovation Institute at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and VR Electronics have partnered to revolutionize the use of wearable technology in orthopedic and healthcare applications. […]
(Popular Science) – Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It’s a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient’s knee, and in them she detects one key problem: a torn ACL. […]
(Imperial College London) – Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a prototype mini MRI scanner that fits around a patient’s leg. The team say the device – which uses so-called ‘magic angle’ effect – could potentially help diagnose knee injuries more quickly, and more accurately. […]
(MD+DI) – The KneeKG evaluates knee functional deficiencies while the joint is in motion and bearing weight, providing physicians with more information about diseases or injuries than static technologies such as x-ray or MRI. […]
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