For patients whose lives are impacted by medical technology breakthroughs, there is a significant improvement in the quality of care their doctors are then able to provide. This is especially true when it comes to cone beam computed tomography (CT)…
It’s difficult to understand how much a bunion can affect your life until you experience it. Known by the medical term hallux valgus, this deformity is painful and can be extremely disruptive. While the traditional solution has been to perform…
It would seem radiography reigns supreme when it comes to initial fracture detection. And yet, some researchers from the University of Washington’s Department of Radiology believe that relying on a single x-ray image can lead to a false negative. In…
Osteochondral lesions of the talar dome (OLTs) involve the articular cartilage and subchondral bone. These lesions can cause deep ankle pain as well as impaired daily activities and sports activities. Surgical treatments are conducted as repair or replacement strategies to…
It has long been accepted that there is no such thing as a safe dose of radiation, and to suggest that radiation could actually have positive health benefits would be laughable. The standard belief was that our bodies had natural…
CT scans were shown to be better at detecting fractures over plain radiographs, according to a recent study by the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS).[1] The study set out to determine the effects of computed tomography (CT) on…
For those needing to analyze the relationship between morphology-based foot center (FC) and force/pressure-based center of gravity (COG), a study by Martinus Richter, M.D., Ph.D., Francois Lintz, M.D., Stefan Zech, M.D., and Stefan Meissner titled Combination of PedCAT with Pedography…
Winner of the Medical Device Excellence Award, the Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF), is regularly employed to treat complex fractures, bone deformities, and nonunion (http://www.smith-nephew.com/). Once TSF is implemented in a patient, a surgeon inputs information about the initial deformity into…
Adult acquired flatfoot deformity is a common, complex disorder associated with the failure of various soft-tissue structures involving and affecting the arch of the foot. It can differ in both severity and location, which contributes to the complexity of analyzing…
Use of radiography, ultrasound, MR, and CT—the four most common imaging tests used for orthopedic extremities—on Medicare patients experienced a jump from 1994 to 2013, according to a study published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Roentgenology…
