Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

"My initial reaction when I learned about this program was, 'no way patients will do this.' I was wrong." Editor-in-Chief Seth Leopold MD discusses why the feature article in the November issue is a must read. See more in his interview with lead author Ana-Maria Vranceanu PhD in this month's Editor's Spotlight/Take 5 https://ow.ly/Vz9J50TVy1S #CORR #orthopeadics #RCT #pain #surgery #psychology

The November 2024 issue is now available at clinorthop.org! This issue features artwork from our "ArtiFacts" column along with our usual mix of interviews, research articles, #CORRInsights and more. Tell us what you’re reading by writing to us or using #CORR on social media! #orthopedics

Free to read this week only! After finding no interaction between spacer type and infectious pathogen type for patients with PJI of the knee, Grant et al. recommend that surgeons prioritize other patient factors when choosing a spacer type. Read in #CORR for free until Nov. 2: https://ow.ly/Glhs50TTGjJ #orthopedics #kneesurgery CC: Jerry Chang, Emily Poehlein, Cynthia Green, Jessica Seidelman, Bill Jiranek

#CallforPapers: Don't forget to submit your manuscript for #CORR's Selected Proceedings from the 2024 Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Annual Meeting! The submission deadline is approaching on Friday, November 1, 2024. Get started at editorialmanager.com/corr #MSTS2024 #orthopedics

"(Leon) Fleisher's remarkable career came crashing to a halt when (he) began to lose the use of his right hand at the age of 36," write Dr. Stuart Green & Nina Scolnik in the latest #ArtinScience column. "He was eventually diagnosed with focal dystonia... (a) condition that is more common among musicians than within the general population." Read more in #CORR: https://ow.ly/fVz650TST4q #orthopedics #neurology #pianist

"Regardless of whether AI is used, developing accurate and fair competency-based (surgical) assessments requires a necessary breadth of data," write Paul Dougherty MD and Pamela Andreatta, EdD, PhD, MFA, MA, FSSH in the latest #CORRCurriculum column. "With AI funding for large projects currently available... now is the time to initiate such efforts." Read more in #CORR: https://ow.ly/MLC450TSRah #meded #residency #orthopedics

#OpenAccess: In addition to demonstrating proof-of-concept for a novel surgical navigation approach to shaping synthetic bone, Chan et al.'s translatable findings form a benchmark for future prospective cadaveric and clinical studies. Read in #CORR: https://ow.ly/GUIQ50TRWfq #orthopedics #oncology #tumor

In #CORR, Brendan Striano et al. caution against using preoperative and intraoperative Hounsfield units interchangeably because they found no correlation between these two measurements on the same vertebra. "Although it would be appealing to provide direct density measurements intraoperatively, challenges exist between a lack of conversion software between device systems," writes Dr. Hollis Potter in a #CORRInsights on the study. "Professional orthopaedic societies are an ideal forum by which to move this forward, pressuring device companies who rely on orthopaedic surgeons to use their technology to provide better standardization." Read the study here: https://ow.ly/nVuk50TQMfN #spinesurgery #orthopedics #basicresearch CC: Alex Crawford, MD, MPH, Harry M. Lightsey IV MD, Chierika Ukogu, Jose I. Acosta Julbe, Daniel Chukwuebuka Gabriel, Andrew Schoenfeld, Andrew Simpson, MD, MBA

"If we truly aim to achieve high-value, population-level, orthopaedic healthcare, addressing the persistence of health inequalities must be central to that pursuit and afforded the appropriate level of urgency," writes Dr. Kwadwo Owusu-Akyaw in his latest #ForwardMovement column. "It is not that the presence of health disparities is unacknowledged in orthopaedic research; the problem is that health disparities are often maintained in a silo, separated from the paradigm of value-based care and relegated to the periphery of academic intrigue." Read more in #CORR: https://ow.ly/mF0g50TOQOx

Free to read this week only! In #CORR, Ludden et al.'s finding that a patient's agency is associated with greater comfort, capability, and mental health supports the prioritization of agency modification during musculoskeletal specialty care. "This is useful, because agency is something we can influence as clinicians," writes Dr. Julia Blackburn in a #CORRInsights on the study. "If increased agency improves outcomes for patients, then self-management is likely to result in better comfort and capability than a passive surgery in which patients feel that their outcomes rest in the surgeon’s hands." #orthopedics #mentalhealth #medicine Read the study here: https://ow.ly/qsWE50TOJW6 CC: David Ring, Prakash Jayakumar