Troubling trends: Childhood obesity influences fracture risk and recovery patterns

Melina Khorrami, BS; Ali Rezazadeh Shirazi, BS; Pooya Hosseinzadeh, MD, FAAOS

Obesity is now among the most common chronic conditions of childhood, and its effects extend into the fracture clinic.

GLP-1 RA medications are changing the TJR landscape

Thomas Fleeter, MD, MBA, FAAOS

As rates of obesity have increased, so, too, has demand for total joint replacement (TJR).

Video details minimally invasive Zadek osteotomy for insertional Achilles tendinitis

Alexandra E. Page, MD, FAAOS

Insertional Achilles tendinitis presents frequently, and when resistant to conservative care, surgery provides an effective solution.

Specialists say break down silos to improve hip and spine care

Theresa Witham

At the The Way I See It session “Evolving Considerations in Hip-Spine Surgical Patients” during the AAOS 2026 Annual Meeting, speakers repeatedly returned to a central theme: hip and spine surgeons can no longer afford to evaluate patients through separate biomechanical frameworks.

Return to play is the wrong measuring stick for determining the success of anterior cruciate ligament surgery

Jocelyn Wittstein, MD, FAAOS

The true hardship of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear isn’t a missed season, a lost college athletic scholarship, or an abrupt end to a sports career.