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Recent meta-analyses and systematic reviews demonstrate that PRP can improve the clinical outcome and reduce the rate of failed healing (“retears”) in arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. In contrast, platelet-rich fibrin has been shown to have no benefit in improving tendon healing rates or functional outcomes.

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Rugby New York has renewed its contract with Hudson Pro Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. The organization has served as our Official Sports Medicine partner and will continue to with this multi-year partnership extension.

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Running offers many benefits, from improved cardiovascular health and increased body strength to helping ease stress, depression and anxiety. 

It also helps you to lose or maintain weight, improve your immune system and brain functions, and even sleep better.

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Published results showed arthroscopic double-row repair augmented with a bioinductive bovine collagen implant may yield favorable rates of radiographic retear and substantial functional recovery for full-thickness rotator cuff tears.

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David Kovacevic, MD, FAAOS provides a summary overview of recent episodes of the July 2021 OrthoJOE podcasts that covered two topics of noted interest to orthopaedic surgeons: machine learning and the fragility index.

David Kovacevic, MD, FAAOS provides perspective for those orthopedic surgeons who care for contact and collision athletes as these patients develop shoulder instability with bone loss that typically requires advanced surgical reconstruction.

Recently published results suggest the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system global-10 may be valid in assessing patients with rotator cuff disease, with high correlation in physical function scores when compared with legacy patient-reported outcome instruments.

Although uncommon, periprosthetic shoulder infection is a devastating complication often requiring revision surgery and antibiotic treatment. Its diagnosis can be difficult due to the indolent slow growing P. acnes infections that are common to the shoulder. The suspicion of infection is derived from clinical symptoms of pain and stiffness, laboratory exam of inflammatory markers, radiological studies, and microbiological cultures and detection methods.

David Kovacevic, MD, Chief of Shoulder, Elbow, and Sports Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES). His study titled “Performance of PROMIS Global-10 compared with legacy instruments in patients with shoulder arthritis” determined the correlation between the PROMIS Global-10 and several legacy patient-reported outcome measures to validate its overall performance as well as usefulness in patients with shoulder arthritis. Based on the study's findings, Dr. Kovacevic does not recommend using the PROMIS Global-10 for patients suffering from shoulder arthritis. 

Football, lacrosse, basketball, soccer, rugby, boxing and hockey. They’re great sports that are just as much fun to watch as they are to play. As different as these sports may be, they all have one thing in common: they are considered contact — or collision — sports and with that come a host of potential hazards.

Staffed by world-class physicians from ColumbiaDoctors Orthopedics, NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital’s Orthopedics and Sports Medicine program offers comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for elite athletes, children and weekend warriors alike. As the hospital broadens its services in Westchester County, patients will benefit from personalized treatment plans built upon careful observation of their movement habits.

David Kovacevic, MD, FAAOS provides commentary in response to an article in The Washington Post on the potential for conflicts of interest and other possible pitfalls of having device representatives in the operating room.

David Kovacevic, MD, FAAOS and his team outline surgical management strategies for a shattered proximal humerus fracture with severe metaphyseal bone loss.