The prices that insurers negotiate for total joint replacement (TJR) procedures vary widely according to type of insurer and aren’t associated with conventional measures of healthcare quality, according to a study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, a...
A look at some of the challenges and opportunities for physical therapists amid today’s changing industry landscape. By Melanie Hamilton-Basich Overall, physical therapy is a good gig to have. It ranks number 10 among the top healthcare jobs in the United States...
New research from Boston Medical Center suggests that Black and Hispanic patients with acute low back pain were more likely to develop high-impact chronic pain when compared to White patients. Published in Pain Med, researchers suggest experiences of discrimination,...
Saluda Medical Pty Limited announces it has initiated the commercialization of the Evoke System, a SmartSCS, in the United States. The US launch of the Evoke System will be a limited commercial release (LCR) designed to expand patient access to this technology. The...
Click Therapeutics Inc, a provider of Digital Therapeutics as prescription medical treatments, announces that it has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CT-132. Click’s CT-132 prescription digital therapeutic...
DarioHealth Corp announces the publication of a new study in Frontiers in Physiology suggesting the effectiveness of the company’s musculoskeletal solution Dario Move, which uses real-time biofeedback and behavior training to reduce back pain. Dario Move’s...
Cleveland Clinic was awarded $5.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a stem cell treatment for complex regional pain syndrome, a disease that causes debilitating chronic pain. The research shows long-term potential for providing patients...
Shriners Children’s Northern California is the second pediatric hospital in the nation to obtain verification as a Level I Specialty Children’s Surgery-Musculoskeletal Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and the only facility on the west...
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee osteoarthritis from x-ray images. AI was able to match a doctors’ diagnosis in 87% of cases. The result is...
A new study reveals that the annual incidence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) among older adults is 50% higher than current estimates of 60,000 diagnoses annually. The peer-reviewed study, which measured new cases of PD, or the number of people diagnosed with PD per...
