AAOS Now, February 2014
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Academy, Specialties Advance Unified Front with Revamped Research Agenda
With the ultimate goal of advancing science and research in orthopaedic care through a unified research strategy, the AAOS recently published a revised list of research priorities necessary to improve function and mobility and reduce the socioeconomic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the United States. This Unified Orthopaedic Research Agenda (URA) had its genesis nearly a decade ago, through a cooperative effort that included the AAOS and orthopaedic specialty societies.
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Nimodipine Can Slow Disk Degeneration in the Spine
Lumbar degenerative disk disease is a serious health problem for more than 70 million Americans. Repetitive spinal loading is a major factor in the onset of the disease. Treatment options include physiotherapy, pain management, and surgery. Although a well-known correlation exists between excessive or prolonged mechanical loading and degenerative disk disease, the etiology of this process is poorly understood.
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“Horsing Around” to Improve Arthroscopic Techniques
As a boy growing up in New Zealand, C. Wayne McIlwraith, DMED, DVM, PhD, would ride his bicycle to a track marked out over a sheep pasture and watch the horse races. Although his parents thought that the rough-and-tumble contests had a bit of an unsavory tint, he was fascinated. Dr. McIlwraith pursued his passion for horses, combining it with medicine and research to develop groundbreaking approaches in arthroscopic surgery and in the treatment of cartilage, bone, soft tissue injuries.
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In Memoriam
Miguel Arroyo Chavez, MD Mexico Terrence J. Barry, MD May 1, 2012 Aventura, Fla. Michael J. Baughman, FACS, MD Jan. 10, 2014 Garden City, Kans. R. Earl Burky, MD Aug. 22, 2013 Yuba City, Calif Ruben D. Cabrera, MD 2004 Burke, Va. Douglas A.S. Chalmers, MD May 30, 2013 Florham Park, N.J. Selim F El-Attrache, MD July 24, 2013 Mount Pleasant, Pa. Jaime Escorcia, MD July 1, 2013 Bogota, Columbia Philip M. Evanski, MD July 29, 2013 New Hope, Pa.