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Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: New Insights on a Common, Potentially Life-Altering Condition
Age-related spinal changes can be relatively benign – but they also can result in spinal cord dysfunction.
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A Handy Guide: How to Identify and Manage Common Upper Extremity Conditions
When patients present with pain, weakness or numbness in fingers, wrists or elbows, providers need efficient paths to diagnosis and initiating care.
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Knee and Hip Replacements: Tips and Tools to Optimize Your Referrals
Noting the prevalence of osteoarthritis and a general lack of consistency in which patients are referred, orthopedic surgeon Claudio Diaz Ledezma, MD, lays out efficient evaluation strategies for primary care providers.
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Prominent Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher to Lead UCSF Orthopaedics Program
C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma assumed his new role on January 1, 2024.
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Streamline Your Approach to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: An Expert on Diagnostic Tactics and Effective Care
In just 20 minutes, orthopedic surgeon Lauren Shapiro, MD, MS, presents what clinicians need to know to identify CTS, from symptoms to simple in-office strength and screening tests, providing criteria for when to pursue electrodiagnostic studies.
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The Intriguing Truth About Orthobiologics: Current Uses, Future Possibilities
For healing diseased or damaged tissues, therapies that use the body's native cellular components may have long-term advantages over go-to treatments, such as steroid injections.
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Keys to the Knees: How to Approach a Variety of Meniscus Tears
Historically misunderstood even by sports medicine specialists, meniscus tears are a range of conditions best managed by considering specifics of both the injury and the patient.
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The UCSF Hip Preservation Center: Where Hurting Hips Go to Become Happy Hips
See how our specialists work together and use advanced techniques to address all types of hip injuries in all types of patients, including infants and athletes.
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The UCSF Spine Center offers comprehensive management for all disorders of the spine, spinal cord and nerve roots.
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A Weight Off Your Shoulders: Better Ways to Identify Common Shoulder Conditions
In this video, orthopedic surgeon Justin Krogue, MD, helps PCPs efficiently assess the complaint, with tips on how patients typically describe specific injuries, valuable questions for history-taking, and simple hands-on tests to perform in the exam room.
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Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Sensors Put the Gait Lab in the Patient’s Pocket
UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Stefano Bini, MD, in collaboration with Google’s Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) division, is developing technology that will revolutionize how providers measure joint function and quantify joint disease. This groundbreaking approach uses cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms and data collected from inexpensive, wearable inertial sensors to accurately replicate gait lab outputs for a fraction of the cost of traditional methods, and in any context.
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A Handy Guide to Keep in Reach: Sports Injuries of the Upper Extremity
Orthopedic surgeon Nikki Schroeder, MD, chief of UCSF’s hand, elbow and upper extremity service, shows providers how to pinpoint the problem when patients present with elbow, wrist or hand pain.
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Hurting Hips: How to Identify and Manage Common Conditions
Orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist Stephanie Wong, MD, takes you on a “tour of the hip” in this straightforward guide to acute and chronic hip injuries frequently seen in clinic.
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Regenerative Medicine Could Soon Transform Treatment of Musculoskeletal Conditions
UCSF’s Brian Feeley, MD, and Xuhui Liu, MD, in collaboration with Kevin Healy, PhD, received a $1.2 million grant for their lab from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to continue pursuing their translational research in regenerative medicine.
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Lumbar Fusion: Strategies to Lower Complications and Optimize Corrections
Focusing particularly on the needs of obese patients, neurosurgeon Aaron Clark, MD, PhD, discusses anterior and lateral approaches to lumbar interbody fusion.
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Pediatric Spondylolisthesis: Identifying Surgical Candidates and Selecting the Approach
In a talk with relevance for both adult and pediatric spinal care providers, orthopedic surgeon Sigurd Berven, MD, discusses complex decisions on whether and how to treat a child with high-grade spondylolisthesis.
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Navigation in Spinal Surgery: An Advantageous Tool of the Trade
Shane Burch, MD. Offering tips from his own experience in both complex and minimally invasive procedures, he explains navigation’s benefits – which include reducing radiation exposure, highlighting individual anatomy and supporting tasks such as screw placement – as well as how to avoid common user errors.
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How 3D-Printed, Patient-Specific Models Reduce Orthopaedic Surgery Time and Improve Patient Outcomes
In this interview, Alexis Dang, MD, talks about the benefits to patients and surgeons and the first time he used a 3D-printed, patient-specific model for surgical planning.
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Jabs for Joints and Tendons: Hurting Patients Want PRP and Stem Cells – But Do They Work?
Patients with aching knees, elbows and other common musculoskeletal problems hope that platelet-rich plasma or stem cell injections could bring relief – and they have lots of questions.
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The Misery of Everyday Back Pain: Primary Care Keys to Better Outcomes
Pain specialist Conor W. O’Neill, MD, director of the UCSF Nonoperative Spine Program, presents a straightforward approach to assessing low back pain in primary care, including how to efficiently rule out serious causes and how to recognize the multiple factors – biological, psychological and social – that contribute to pain.
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Pop Goes the Knee: Primary Care Diagnosis and Management of the Most Common Injuries
Orthopedic surgeon Elly LaRoque, MD, presents a guide to the knee problems frequently seen by PCPs, including tips on distinguishing complaints by typical histories and physical exam findings.
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Diagnose and Treat Hip and Knee Arthritis: An Expert on Life-Changing Strategies
Orthopedic surgeon Jeff Barry, MD, presents a guide to identifying and managing the all-too-common conditions of hip and knee arthritis, with a wealth of tips on assessing histories, performing physical exams and ordering imaging studies.
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Put Your Shoulder Skills to the Wheel: An Anatomy-Based Lesson on Common Complaints
Sara Edwards, MD, illustrates tests for detecting specific injuries and explains when to order imaging, what images may show, and when referral to a specialist makes sense.
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The Backache Blues: How to Satisfy Patients With This Ordinary – and Elusive – Complaint
Among the most common reasons for seeking medical care , low back pain is best addressed when primary care and specialty providers work collaboratively.
