After her crash at the world championships Tuesday, Vonn has been scheduled for major orthopedic surgery.
New indications for these drugs have been granted for patients with atrial fibrillation and following orthopedic surgery.
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After graduating from medical school in 1975 and from an orthopedic surgery residency, also at Hahnemann, he followed his dream into what was then considered a backwater field.
"The longer poles recruit the abdominal and upper body muscles, " says Jonathan Chang, a clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Southern California in Alhambra, Calif.
Investigators at seven universities and orthopedic surgery centers in the US studied 351 patients aged 45 years or older who had a meniscal tear and mild-to-moderate osteoarthritis of the knee.
Once their colleagues in orthopedic surgery saw the plan in action, they bought extra equipment so that they, too, could set aside some operating rooms and set up a surgeon-of-the-week program.
Numerous studies, including research reviewed in 1998 by the National Academy of Sciences involving 66 leading specialists in orthopedic surgery and occupational medicine, suggest ergonomics can be at least partly responsible for musculoskeletal disorders.
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Charles Francis , a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester who headed up this clinical trial, says that these results are especially promising because orthopedic surgery is a difficult test of an anticoagulant.
Rivaroxaban is currently indicated in the US for stroke reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation, for the treatment and prevention of recurrence of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and for DVT prophylaxis after orthopedic surgery.
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My mother planned to come to Boston, where I live, for the surgery so she could stay with me during her recovery. (My father died last year.) Boston has three hospitals in the top rank of orthopedic surgery.
Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said Ware's injury "looks like a pretty bad break to both his tibia and fibula, " the two long bones in the lower leg.
The most popular orthopedic procedures, including back, knee and rotator-cuff surgery, are growing at 10% a year or more.
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