STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of online spine-related patient education materials from leading academic centers. OBJECTIVE To assess the readability levels of spine surgery-related patient education materials available on the websites of academic orthopedic surgery departments. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The Internet is becoming an increasingly popular resource for patient education...

extract: physical mobility and exercise are necessary for people health. for patient with mobility limitation this issue has more importance because these exercises help them to return to normal function more effectively. since the individual planning for each patient is not time effective, so we could plan group exercises and perform properly in orthopedic wards. the important goals of this pl...

Patients with orthopedic injuries and nontraumatic musculoskeletal disorders compose a large portion of the more than 100 million patients who come to U.S. emergency departments (EDs) annually. Although only rarely life-threatening, orthopedic injuries may threaten a limb or its function, and accurate early diagnosis and treatment can avert long-term complications. Many of these injuries can an...

context a tourniquet is a device that is used frequently in most orthopaedic surgeries but this routine device can lead to serious complications so we decided to review and declare it for safe instruction and use. evidence acquisition we searched the word “tourniquet” in pubmed and google and reviewed all full text english articles and abstracts of non-english articles. in addition, we read all...

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in this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing ronald andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of kovacs et al. on patients travelling to hungary for orthopedic treatment. finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...