Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush is welcoming five new physicians! New research from Australia is re-examining an old vertebroplasty debate. ZendyHealth and Kerlan-Jobe have teamed up to offer a "name your price" surgery option.

Is chemonucleolysis for painful lower back disc herniation returning? In the 1980s chymopapain achieved fairly wide spread use as a chemonucleolysis agent. Outcomes were highly technique and patient selection dependent. It eventually left the market. Now two large firms have inked a deal to bring a new chemonucleolysis approach to market. Will this one work?

In the exam room, OR, or the research lab, these are some of the top sports knee surgeons in North America.

From the late 1990s to today, the number of annual deaths from preventable medical errors has increased roughly four-fold. What is going on? Former head of patient safety at AAOS tackles this troubling statistic head on and discusses new efforts to stem the rising tide of adverse surgical events in the U.S.

Acetabular bone loss and impaction grafting, for which patients is it good strategy, which patients is it a 'no-way' strategy and is it overly technique dependent? Alejandro Gonzalez Della Valle and Allan Gross, with Daniel Berry moderating, tackle this important and impactful (pun intended) subject.

Same day total knee arthroplasty is the siren song of large joint reconstruction. Michael Berend has performed over 2,000 knee arthroplasties with 98% of these folks going home the same day and recommends it strongly. Michael Dunbar points out that these are select patients in a tightly controlled environment. Hard to duplicate especially with heavier, more diabetic and older patients. Read this very interesting debate here.

Same day total knee arthroplasty is the siren song of large joint reconstruction. Michael Berend has performed over 2,000 knee arthroplasties with 98% of these folks going home the same day and recommends it strongly. Michael Dunbar points out that these are select patients in a tightly controlled environment. Hard to duplicate especially with heavier, more diabetic and older patients. Read this very interesting debate here.

Unicompartmental Knee or Total Knee? What's not to like about preserving natural kinematics, lower infection rate and good post op range of motion? But can the patient live with higher revision rates? Dr. Thienpont argues for Uni while Dr. Ranawat takes the counter position. Great and timely debate this week.

OK, it's a distal femoral peri-prosthetic fracture. Do you reach for the locking plates, the screws or the intramedullary nails? Or do you opt for a mega prosthesis? This week's Orthopaedic Crossfire® debate tackles this excellent subject with ENDO-Klinik's Gehrke choosing the big implant and Orlando Health's Haidukewych going ORIF. Who wins? You judge.

Legendary private investment firm Stephens Group, LLC has made the leap into spine. Earlier this year another major private equity firm, Kohlberg & Company also put their considerable resources behind a small spine company. Stephens is investing in CoreLink, a relatively unknown St. Louis based manufacturer. What's going on?