Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. By Keynote ContributorDr. Pamela Mehta, M.D.Orthopedic Surgeon and Founder of ResilienceOrthopedics Challenges in conventional orthopedic treatments You never know when you might need to see an orthopedic surgeon. From cradle to casket, accidents and injuries are an inevitable part of life, with your joints worse off for it. Even if you can...
by Johns Hopkins University A cutaway diagram of the ear showing the two regions — the middle ear and mastoid air cells (as indicated by the red arrows) — from where Johns Hopkins researchers recently isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus (seen at upper right), the cause of COVID-19. Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine,...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – After experiencing an ACL injury, a common sports injury involving ligaments in the knee, many athletes find they can’t return to play with the same vigor as before their injury. But, a new study, published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, finds human growth hormone treatment after ACL reconstructive surgery...
As has been widely hyped for many years now, mesenchymal stem cells have the capacity to heal all sorts of damage in our bodies. The reality has been more complicated, since it is actually very difficult to get these cells to perform their magic just where we want them to. Damaged cartilage, for example, doesn’t...
by Andrea Six, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Where bones fracture, surgeons often have to join the fragments with implants. Magnesium orthopedic screws, which over time dissolve in the body, spare patients another operation after healing is completed and reduce the risk of infection. What happens inside the body during this process,...
