As an ortho surgeon X23 years- this study is the most significant one in all of orthopedics in probably 20+ years (maybe the last one being that scoping for arthritis doesn’t work) It should be the number 1 topic among sports orthos. I have only seen silence. Why? (Link below)

Yount, Carlton, Aaron, Pedro

Our paper DOI: 10.1016/j.msksp.2024.103249 "Anaesthetic and corticosteroid response immediately following epidural injection in patients with MRI confirmed lumbar disc herniation" just published Thanks to the team for their hard work! 😎

What is a good medical choice? A critique of some current dogmas in medical decision making pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC81…

One in three of TikTok's **own users** say they wish the platform didn't exist Most polls find only ~25% of Americans oppose the ban The idea that there is some mass popular uprising on behalf of saving TikTok is just not true

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of [MDT] combined with transforaminal epidural steroid injections for patients on a waiting list for surgery for a chronic lumbar herniated disc: A randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation - The Spine Journal thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-…

Happy bday to one of the greats, Charles Tillman! 🥜🥊

Resolution of Noncardiac Chest Pain With Corrective Exercises for Neck and Upper Thoracic Spine acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ai…

Mechanisms of manual therapy umbrella review. Open access in PLOS One. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… One of the largest reviews I've ever been involved in. Led by Damian Keter PT

Integrative medicine & functional medicine are GOOP for doctors. A full on marketing strategy- selling scammy supplements & programs, preying on vulnerable individuals with empty promises isn’t just unethical; it’s the lowest form of medical exploitation.

Not sure who's still here, but anyway! We collected all the placebo controlled trials for non-surgical Rx on back pain together in a systematic review. It was pretty epic, and pretty sobering results-wise. Hope you like it. ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…

And the first time #BloodFlowRestriction exercise, and exercise in general, will be performed on SpaceX Dragon to investigate how #BFR exercise training can be used to optimise the efficiency of exercise countermeasures to maintain astronaut health and performance on exploration

Do some cervical disc herniations regress over time like lumbar spine herniations. The answer is yes. Here is a short thread 🧵

Further evidence that skeletal muscle retains a "memory" during detraining for enhanced muscle growth upon retraining 💪 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Before vaccines, babies got breastmilk, sunshine and love. And 1 in 5 of them didn't live to see their first birthday

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

That we have spent so much time and money on this nonsense intervention at the expense of building true competency never fails to frustrate me

NFL teams to Shedeur Sanders

Today NEJM Challenging dogma for routine surveillance imaging after cancer treatment The results of 12 randomized trials show no survival benefit, despite scans leading to more chemotherapy, surgery and radiation nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Sometimes you just need to listen to the entirety of DS2 as a spiritual cleanse