The new, 33-page guide provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand descriptions of common sports injuries, from ankle sprains and concussions, to cardiac arrest and heat stroke.
“AOSSM and AAOS have worked to create a guide unbiased information about sports injuries and treatments for athletes of all ages and skill levels
Higher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation’s health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. A study compared physicians’ fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip replacements in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Also compared physicians’ incomes net of practice expenses, differences in financing the cost of medical education, and the relative contribution of payments per physician and of physician supply in the countries’ national spending on physician services. Public and private payers paid somewhat higher fees to US primary care physicians for office visits (27 percent more for public, 70 percent more for private) and much higher fees to orthopedic physicians for hip replacements (70 percent more for public, 120 percent more for private) than public and private payers paid these physicians’ counterparts in other countries. US primary care and orthopedic physicians also earned higher incomes ($186,582 and $442,450, respectively) than their foreign counterparts. They conclude that the higher fees, rather than factors such as higher practice costs, volume of services, or tuition expenses, were the main drivers of higher US spending, particularly in orthopedics.
There was an E poster that I found very interesting that could be the future
for broken collar bones. It involves using a flexible implant into the canal of
the clavicle, and then with a few turns it becomes rigid with more strength then
a titanium plate. I have provided a link where Dr Carl Basamania is showing the
technique
What to do about partial Rotator Cuff Tears
by Dr. Chris Gerber , Patients
suspected of having a rotator cuff tear are divided into two treatment groups
initially: Each patient is initially a candidate for either operative or
non-operative treatment, however patients are re-evaluated throughout the
course of treatment and may move from one group to the other based on their
clinical response and findings on repeated examination.
Since many patients with partial
tears and some even with complete tears can respond to non-operative
management, generally conservative care is offered first. If a significant
trauma such as a shoulder dislocation, or fracture, or
high energy force is known to have been followed by complete to near complete
loss of rotator cuff- mediated motion and strength, then an operative work-up
is initiated with plans to proceed to surgery for repair, if confirmatory.
