Category: Episodes

“How do you feel now compared to how you felt before surgery?” is a common question asked of patients? But how well do they remember? Are they accurate or do they overestimate or do...

This episode is less about exercise programs after total hip arthroplasty and more about meticulous study design prior to data collection. We look at essentially having the paper written before the study begins –...

Patient reported outcome measures (PROM) are commonly used to assess function in patients. But is that what they are actually measuring? Can we alter those scores in a meaningful way just through practicing the...

What do patients believe about knee osteoarthritis and nonsurgical interventions? Where do they get these beliefs? Can we change these beliefs? Even if we do will that make a difference? Misconceptions and the Acceptance...

Exercise works for pain..but why? Probably not for the reasons that we think. Does it matter? What a silly question… Musculoskeletal pain and exercise-challenging existing paradigms and introducing new.Smith BE, Hendrick P, Bateman M,...

Following an algorithm in medicine (and other high consequence professions) is shown to result in better outcomes. But isn’t that just like following a cookbook? Or is it more about making sure that we...

Doing a manipulation on the thoracic spine may help people with cervical radiculopathy but there are a lot of questions to answer here. This paper has an odd presentation of the data and generates...

Is there a lack of diversity in orthopedics? Is improving diversity around gender the same challenge as improving diversity around race? Why are some areas of medicine improving while others are still having issues?...

Does the weight of an athlete matter when considering how much force they can handle? Is obesity the cause of disease or just something else that was caused by the cause of disease; whatever...

In previous episodes we have talked about many issues around biologics research. This article takes an honest look at PRP for patellar tendinopathy by including two different preparations AND a placebo group. How did...