What's new

  • Request Your New AAOS Password
    NEW - Your Username is your AAOS member ID without any leading zeroes
    The AAOS has successfully transitioned to our new association management system. This conversion requires everyone, including all Members and Customers, to go through the 'Request a new Password' process for access to the AAOS web site.
  • 2010 Fall Meeting
    The Westin Kierland Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona
    October 28 - 31, 2010
    When making your travel arrangements, please plan to arrive no earlier than Thursday and depart on flights after 1:00 PM on Sunday. Please make hotel and airline reservations by October 5, 2010.
  • Annual Meeting Housing for Members
    AAOS Annual Meeting housing is open online for members ONLY. If you have not changed your password since July 1, you will be required to do so in order to reserve a sleeping room.
  • "News in 10" updated
    The "News in 10" feature of the AAOS Now Web page has been updated to reflect the 10 most significant elements published in recent editions of Headline News Now.
  • AAOS/OTA Live 90-minute Webinar, September 22
    Surgical strategies, tips, pearls and practical application of locked plating help you leverage the advantages of this technique. The live webinar AAOS/OTA Locked Plating in the Management of Metaphyseal Fractures, directed by William M Ricci, MD, includes lectures, online polling, visual demonstrations, and a case-based discussion
  • Anatomy of an EMR contract
    Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure these areas are covered to your satisfaction.
  • Graft selection doesn’t affect return to sports
    A matched-pair, case-controlled analysis finds similar outcomes, regardless of whether a patellar tendon autograft or a hamstring autograft is used for ACL reconstruction.
  • The need for vintage speed
    Outside the office, AAOS fellow Nicholas Coyvas, MD, drives vintage Formula One racers.
  • Who hurts more—and why?
    AAOS/ORS/ABJS symposium on musculoskeletal health care disparities looks at the ways that sex and gender affect painprevalence and mechanisms.
  • New on OKO: Current Management of Skeletal Metastasis (Video)
  • New on OKO: Arthroscopic Transosseous Equivalent Double-Row Rotator Cuff Repair (Video)

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Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

The Deep Vein Thrombosis Web Portal (www.aaos.org/dvt) is full of multimedia information focused on Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).