Apparently not all PRP is made equal

Orthobiologics have become increasingly popular in recent years. OrthoInfo defines orthobiologics as “therapies developed from biologic (natural) substances that can be used by orthopaedic specialists to relieve pain […], enhance the body’s ability to heal from a repetitive use injury […] and in some cases, improve healing after orthopaedic surgery.” One of the most popular […]

What was left out from our critical APM paper?

Early this year, we published a paper that I am incredibly proud of. For a long time, I have thought that arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in the treatment of degenerative meniscus tears “does not make sense.” I mean that there is no credible biological mechanism for removing the torn meniscus to make the knee any better […]

Continues discourse about “level V evidence”

In my recent post I discussed about “Level V Guideline” for subacromial decompression. I naturally participated to the discussion Drs Poolman and van den Bekerom had started. We wrote in our letter: ‘Optimal patient selection’ can be considered a myth until evidence of effect modifiers arises. We argue that if there were subpopulations that benefit […]

Three-to-one response to our letter

In my previous blog post I told about our letter to editor concerning a study criticizing sham-controlled studies in orthopaedics. Another letter was also submitted and accepted at the same time by Harris, Poolman and Buchbinder. They had also very important aspects regarding the criticism towards sham-controlled RCTs: We agree that there are other methods […]

What to do in infected tibial nonunion when distraction osteogenesis, Mascale or vascularized bone graft is not possible?

Not all science is randomized trials. Some conditions are really rare and in those you can mostly rely on clinical experience. This was exactly the case my colleague had. He had a patient who had undergone a bicondylar plating of severely comminuted proximal tibia fracture. Deep infection resulted to a massive bone loss which lead […]

Views on orthopaedics motivated by recent editorial – Part 1

A recent editorial in the Bone & Joint Journal was about weight-bearing in orthopaedic traumatology. Written by Alex Trompeter, the title was intriguing: A call to arms: it’s time to bear weight! This editorial was best I have read in a while. Besides weight-bearing, Trompeter addressed many other general topics. In following posts I will […]

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