Complication Rates
Complication rates reflect the frequency of adverse events during medical procedures. They are critical indicators of treatment safety and effectiveness, informing healthcare decisions and quality improvement efforts. Monitoring and minimizing complication rates are essential to enhance patient care and outcomes.
Subscribe to the BlogIs R3 Stem Cell Really an Award Winner?
R3 is a marketing company run by a defrocked orthopedic spine surgeon that has gained lots of attention for flaunting FDA regulations and claims about its private-labeled stem cell products that can’t be verified. Not to be dissuaded, they have now created a host of artificial awards and press releases or what I called the…read more
Potential Problems With Artificial Disc Replacement
On this page: Artificial discs and what they’re used for The problems with artificial disc replacement New research shows big complication rates A physicians experience with ADRs Artificial disc replacement has been all the rage for the past 5 to 10 years. The idea is that it’s supposed to help reduce the side effects of…read more
The Serious Long-Term Effects of ACL Reconstruction Surgery
On this page: Long-term effects of ACL reconstruction surgery Nerve interaction with ligaments like the ACL Research on the ACL and the gamma loop We tend to take for granted that our bodies are finely tuned machines and complex neural circuitry allows them to do the amazing things we’re designed to do. A 2011 study…read more How Successful Is Hip Labral Tear Surgery Really?
On this page: What is the hip labrum? What is a hip labrum tear? What is FAI? Can physical therapy help FAI? Can a hip labral tear heal itself? Will a cortisone shot help a torn hip labrum? What’s the hip labral tear surgery success rate? What is the hip labral tear surgery success rate?…read more Surgery to Remove Cartilage in the Knee: Not Effective!
Surgery to remove cartilage in the knee likely happens thousands of time each day. The surgeon pokes in the arthroscope and sees a cartilage flap, a piece of cartilage that is attached at one end and no longer connected to the bone. The doctor then shaves that piece of cartilage off. Why? No particular scientific…read more Outcomes, Complication Rates, and Stem Cell Procedures
Given the quite reasonable concerns this past week over the blinding of three women by a stem cell clinic injecting fat stem cells into eyes, I thought it was time to take a look at stem-cell-procedure complications. All medical procedures have complications. So what bar can we use to see if those complications are reasonable, and…read more Patient Satisfaction with Meniscus Surgery Results Much Lower Than Surgeons Estimate
One in five patients (21%) report that they are dissatisfied with their meniscus surgery results, and another two in five (41%) report that they are only partially satisfied. That’s a whopping three in five patients (62%) who are not fully satisfied after undergoing surgery for a torn meniscus. This doesn’t seem to echo surgeons’ claims…read more
Hip Labrum Surgery Complications: Making the Hip Unstable…
This week while practicing down in Grand Cayman I evaluated a professional ballerina from Germany who regrettably is having issues with recovery due to hip labrum surgery complications. In her case, she was diagnosed with CAM and pincer impingement and since having these bone spurs removed has never been able to get back to high level…read more 
