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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Knee injury, again

One of my favorite topics is back in the news. Apparently ACL cannot unnecessary repairs. Here's the WSJ health blog write up about the NEJM study. Two groups of active young people with torn ACLs were divided. Half got immediate ACL repair, half got rehabilitation and subsequent repair if necessary. The second group around 39% required surgery, but when the two groups (Surg vs Surg if rehabilitation not enough) were evaluated there was no difference.

Especially this is a big duh! A simple ACL tear needs correct if you're going, Ski travel, play football, volleyball and other sports that it needs.I had a left knee, the simple ACL tear in my early 1930s had fixed after 6 months to wait & rehab and went back to all these sports.(Although I never seriously in a winding sport before repair tested it).

Then I had a tear of the right knee ACL and a few weeks later several trauma a few years later to my left knee



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Thursday, July 22, 2010

AMA and Congress: "Chicken" play again

Has nine times in the past eight years, Congress in the last second delayed automatic cuts in medical practices Medicare fees, some 13 years ago, decided Medicare prevent spending faster than other consumer issues.

The AMA threatens that doctors, especially care to accept Medicare patients stop doctors, if the cuts go through. Congress rest towards the frontal collision, citing runaway budget problems.Doctors in the balance are kept, their demands kept rests while institution to fix retroactively wait the problem for the Congress if it missed its deadline spam.messages AMA claims credit, if the wreck is averted, and doctors calls continue to pay their fees, while it works feverishly for permanent



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