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AAOS Now, May 2025

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  • The Circuitous Path from Concept to Product: Experts Share Tips for Surgeon Entrepreneurs

    Josh Baxt

    At the AAOS 2025 Annual Meeting, Symposium K, “From Garage to Market: A Stepwise Approach to Creating an Orthopaedic Device,” covered how to transform an innovative idea into a fully realized product.

  • Symposium Offers Strategies for Surgeons after Adverse Events

    Leah Lawrence

    Every person who practices medicine will have a patient experience complications, explained Colonel Mary Carnduff, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAOS, during Symposium E, “Bouncing Back from Complications,” held during the AAOS 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, Wins Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award for Research Pertaining to Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

    Molly Todd Rudy

    Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, was recognized as the 2025 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award winner for research showing how leveraging advanced analytics with personalized outcome-prediction tools can optimize outcomes and satisfaction among patients who have total hip or knee arthroplasty.

  • AAOS Names Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award Winner for 25-Year Anterior Shoulder Instability Research

    Jennifer Lefkowitz

    The 2025 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award was presented to Matthew T. Provencher, MD, MBA, CAPT MC USNR (Ret.), FAAOS, and his military orthopaedic colleagues for their work in understanding and treating anterior shoulder instability among U.S. military members.

  • Lower-Limb Alignment after High Tibial Osteotomy Linked to Residual Proinflammatory Gene Expression

    Rebecca Araujo

    Researchers from Kyoto University found residual proinflammatory cytokine gene expressions after under-correction following medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy.

  • Brian J. Cole, MD, Receives OREF Clinical Research Award for Research on Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation

    Jennifer Lefkowitz

    The 2025 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Clinical Research Award was presented to Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA, FAAOS, for his collaborative effort over the past 25 years to advance osteochondral allograft transplantation to treat cartilage and bone defects in the knee.

  • Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award Recognizes Groundbreaking Research on Rotator Cuff Repair

    Molly Todd Rudy

    Brian T. Feeley, MD, FAAOS, was bestowed with the 2025 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award for his research to advance the understanding of muscle degeneration in rotator cuff injuries and how it affects repair outcomes.

  • Virtual Reality Immersion Reduces Anxiety, Pain during Limb Deformity Surgery Follow-Up Care

    Rebecca Araujo

    The use of a virtual reality immersion distraction technique reduced anxiety levels in young patients undergoing external fixator care procedures following limb-lengthening or reconstructive surgery.

  • Study Supports Safety of Suzetrigine as Non-Opioid Treatment for Pain after Orthopaedic Surgery

    Keightley Amen, BA, ELS

    Research presented at the AAOS 2025 Annual Meeting shows that the oral drug suzetrigine has potential to be a safe and effective option to manage moderate to severe acute pain, such as that experienced after orthopaedic surgery.

  • Back on the Mound: Study Examines Return to Sport after Ulnar Collateral Ligament Surgery in MLB Pitchers

    Keightley Amen, BA, ELS

    MLB pitchers who had ulnar collateral ligament surgery threw harder with less use of the fastball, and they had superior overall pitching ability and strike-zone command than matched controls, according to new research.

  • Study Finds Some Bacterial Contamination in Half of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Cases

    Keightley Amen, BA, ELS

    A recent study found detectable levels of bacterial contamination in 50 percent of 16 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgeries, and the most common step of the procedure for contamination was just prior to ACL graft passage.

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