Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Special Issue

What's new in shoulder and elbow surgery.

What's new in shoulder and elbow surgery?.

Special issue: Progress in shoulder biomechanics.

This special issue presents papers that arose from the bi-annual International Shoulder Group (ISG) meeting in Minneapolis in July 2010. The ISG is a collaboration of mostly biomechanically oriented research groups, whose main interest is in the shoulder. It was founded in 1989 and has been a Technical Group of the International Society of Biomechanics since 1999. The ISG aims to enhance should...

Medicare Compensation Rates for Hand and Shoulder/ Elbow Surgery by Operative Time: A Comparative Analysis

Background: There is a high demand for shoulder/elbow experience among hand-fellowship trainees due to theperception that this exposure will improve their professional “marketability” in a subspecialty they perceive as havinghigher compensation.Methods: Using Medicare data, we investigated the most common surgeries from these fields and determinedwhich have the highest c...

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Elbow and Shoulder Lesions of Baseball Players*

George Eli Bennett was born in Claryville, NY, in the Catskill Mountains, in 1885 [3]. His parents both died by the time he was 11, leaving him the need to work while going to school, but he excelled in school and sports. He played semipro baseball at the age of 16. After high school he work in various jobs in the Midwest before he could afford to attend the University of Maryland Medical Schoo...