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Rodeo Meeting Flyer

December 10 – 11, 2012 The South Point HotelLas Vegas, Nevada Course DescriptionThis program will provide attendees with the knowledge to provide care for the most common injuries sustained by the rodeo athlete. It will cover acute care, late reconstruction and preventative methods to limit injury in the rodeo athlete....

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Femoral Tunnel Drilling

Download the Full Article » The femoral tunnel in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction can be created using transtibial, anteromedial portal, or outsideto-in techniques. The outsideto-in technique is less commonly performed because it requires an additional incision on the distal lateral aspect of the femur....

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Current concepts review: revision rotator cuff repair

Failed rotator cuff repair may be caused by surgical complications, diagnostic errors, technical errors, failure to heal, and traumatic failure. Revision rotator cuff repair is made technically more difficult by poor tissue quality, tissue adhesions, and retained suture and suture anchor material....

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Disorders of the long head of biceps tendon

Disorders of the long head of the biceps (LHB) tendon can exist in conjunction with several other shoulder pathologies....

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Locked knee caused by meniscal subluxation: Magnetic resonance imaging and arthroscopic verification

Subluxation or dislocation of an intact lateral meniscus is a controversial and rarely reported cause of knee pain and locking....

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Suture anchors in arthroscopic rotator cuff repair

The use of suture anchors in shoulder surgery has facilitated the rapid advancement of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair techniques....

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Arthroscopic Management of Shoulder Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) can cause severe pain and dysfunction of the shoulder....

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Humeral Avulsion of the Glenohumeral Ligament

Humeral avulsion of glenohumeral ligaments (HAGL) is an increasingly recognized cause of recurrent shoulder instability...

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Arthroscopic Biceps Tenodesis Incorporated Into Rotator Cuff Repair Using Suture Anchors

A simple and effective technique is described for incorporating arthroscopic biceps tenodesis into arthroscopic suture anchor rotator cuff repair....

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Method of Subcoracoid Graft Passage in Acromioclavicular Joint Reconstruction

Subcoracoid suture and/or graft passage is a technically difficult aspect of acromioclavicular joint reconstruction with free soft tissue grafts. The Suture Lasso can be used for subcoracoid passage in a simple, safe, and easily reproducible fashion....

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The Sauve-Kapandji procedure and the Darrach procedure for distal radio-ulnar joint dysfunction after Colles' fracture

This retrospective study evaluated the results of the Darrach procedure and the Sauve-Kapandji procedure for the treatment of distal radio-ulnar joint derangement following malunion of dorsally displaced, unstable, intraarticular fractures of the distal radius in patients under 50 years of age....

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Shoulder impingement syndrome

Subacromial impingement syndrome is a common cause of shoulder pain....

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Current concepts review: revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Failed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction presents a difficult clinical challenge....

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Endoscopic versus rear-entry ACL reconstruction: a systematic review

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is commonly performed using the all-endoscopic (also known as all-inside or single-incision) method or the rear-entry (also known as outside-in or two-incision) method....

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Ethics in sports medicine

Physicians have struggled with the medical ramifications of athletic competition since ancient Greece, where rational medicine and organized athletics originated....

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