Many countries have strict regulations to ensure new drugs are effective and are worth the money before doctors can prescribe them. But surgical procedures are often less strictly regulated. This can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Subacromial decompression with arthroscopic rotator cuff repair yielded a 21% risk reduction for revision ...

In most cases, an arthroscopic subacromial decompression is performed with other separately identifiable procedures. However, if the arthroscopic decompression is the only procedure ...

Arthroscopic subacromial decompression surgery does not reduce pain any more than arthroscopy alone in people with shoulder impingement, researchers say. "[T]he findings from our study suggest that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Durect Corporation has announced the FDA approval of Posimir, a post-surgical, non-opioid local analgesic for ...

The panel felt that almost no one who fully understands the evidence would choose to have surgery. "Clinicians should not offer patients subacromial decompression surgery unprompted, and clinicians, ...

Posimir is a novel formulation of bupivacaine, an amide local anesthetic, designed to be administered directly into the surgical site. Posimir ® (bupivacaine solution) is now available for ...

1 Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Physiotherapy, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital, SE-581 85, Linköping STUDY ...

Introduction Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) contains a high concentration of autologous platelets and is used as a therapy to aid tendon healing in tendinopathy. No evidence exists of any correlation ...

Many countries have strict regulations to ensure new drugs are effective and are worth the money before doctors can prescribe them. But surgical procedures are often less strictly regulated. This can ...