CMS is adding prior authorization requirements for certain fee-for-service procedures under traditional Medicare as part of its new Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model. A total of 17 ...

The global kyphoplasty market size was US$ 632.45 million in 2021. The global kyphoplasty market size is forecast to reach US$ 1086.7 million by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) ...

Patients are suffering from a chaotic system of cancellations, lost paperwork and ‘urgent’ appointments that take 12 months to materialise ...

Objective To perform a systematic literature review (SLR) about the effect of non-pharmacological interventions delivered by non-physician health professionals to prevent and manage osteoporotic ...

McQueen (6-foot-5, 197 pounds) is No. 8 in NHL Central Scouting's final ranking of North American skaters, and at his best is ...

The fracture was located at the cervical spine in 7 patients, at the thoracic spine in 9, at the thoracolumbar junction in 3, and at the lumbar spine in one patient (table 2).

In fact, spinal fractures are as much as four times more likely for people with axSpA than for people without the disease, and as much as 15% of people with the condition will suffer those injuries.

We identified hospitalised patients who were admitted with a primary diagnosis of hip fracture (ICD-9 codes 820.x), spine fracture (ICD-9 codes 806 .x) and humero-radio-ulnar fractures (ICD-9 codes ...

Dorset-based amateur jockey Alice Procter may have suffered spinal damage in a heavy fall at Cartmel on Saturday. Procter, 21, was taken by air ambulance from the Cumbrian racecourse to the trauma ...

Results: Higher levels of age, systolic and diastolic blood pressures were found in the traumatic fracture group compared to the control group, whereas weight, height, and blood phosphorus did not ...