Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Several weeks ago, I was asked to give a presentation to an audience on the topic of golf and its relationship to back and neck pain.
Almost all golfers, ranging from the professional to the weekend warrior, will experience back pain at some point in their golfing career. The reason for ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Why is health care so expensive? We at the Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago continually ask ourselves why and what we can do in our health care delivery system to control costs? In approaching the question, first we are attempting to define the major causes. The AARP July and ...
Posted in Dr. Sheinkop, Healthcare Costs | View entire post
Friday, September 19th, 2008
I would like to introduce myself as the Neurologic and Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago's spine blog forum advisor. My name is Michael Gleiber, M.D., and I’m a fellowship trained orthopedic spine surgeon. My practice focuses exclusively on surgical and non-surgical spine care.
My goal in writing in these forums is to ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
A comprehensive study using our data on hip and knee replacements is under way. My preliminary data raises some concerns about the new surgical techniques of hip resurfacing and unicondylar knee replacement.
Hip and knee replacements are amongst the most frequent surgical operations performed; however there is little evidence to compare ...
Posted in Dr. Sheinkop, Orthopedics, hip resurfacing | View entire post
Monday, September 1st, 2008
A registry for artificial joints is much like any system that can compare performance of competing cars or appliances, but in this case it involves appliances going into the human body.
A patient - identified by a number - is entered into a database along with information about the device he ...
Posted in Dr. Sheinkop, Joint Replacement, Orthopedics, Surgery, hip resurfacing | View entire post
