Clarity is good! The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directors has just approved new Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for the management of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and the ...

The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) clinical practice guidelines on treatment of knee arthritis has a moderate to strong recommendation for cortisone injections and does not recommend ...

BCBSA TEC published a special report in 2005 titled: Intra-Articular Hyaluronan for Osteoarthritis of the Knee which was an update from its first assessment on this topic in 1998. The special ...

That’s according to research presented recently at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS ... procedures will continue to rise but at a slower rate. Knee and ...

Studies have found that 85% of knees last 20 years, and the AAOS estimates 10% of patients ... For example, in a 2013 study published in Arthritis Care & Research, which examined data from about ...

As AAOS wrote in its December 12 ... The study, “Are bisphosphonates efficacious in knee osteoarthritis? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials,” appears in the December 5, 2017 edition of ...