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Writing a textbook is an enormous undertaking.  In creating a first of its kind, comprehensive textbook in Interventional Orthopedic Procedures, authors Williams, Sussman and Pitts have established a new benchmark in the field.  Congratulations to its authors for their dedication, foresight and commitment to the advancement of Interventional Orthopedics.  What…

It all happened so suddenly.  You were running down the field and made a quick cut.  You heard an audible pop followed by searing knee pain and then collapsed to the ground. Your doctor thinks your tore your ACL and has referred you to a surgeon.  What is the Anterior…

It started as a dull ache and now has progressed. It feels like a knife in the back of your neck and is preventing you from daily activities. Medications, rest, and conservative treatments have failed. Your doctor noticed on X-ray that the bones are out of alignment. They think you…

The neck pain is unrelenting, and it all started after being rear-ended at a stoplight. Spine X-rays demonstrated some abnormal movement of the spinal bones. Both conservative care and medications have failed. Your doctor thinks you have injured a spinal ligament. What is the anterior longitudinal ligament? What is its…

Introduction Medicine is highly specialized now.  Each specialty has a series of checkboxes that patient’s symptoms nicely fit into.  For example, irregular heart rhythm with abnormal ECG is a cardiology problem.  Shortness of breath with abnormal chest x-ray can be effectively evaluated and treated by a pulmonologist.  Unfortunately, the symptoms…