Vol. XII, No. 11Archive > November, 2011
Game Changers in Arthroscopic Surgery
An orthopedic surgeon runs down the indispensable tools of the trade.
C. David Geier, MD
Sports medicine and orthopedic surgery have undergone dramatic changes over the last couple of decades. While the most fundamental changes in the surgeries themselves took place with the introduction of the arthroscope, the subsequent tools, devices and implants let us perform procedures through 2 or 3 very small incisions rather than the 6-inch scars we often see on patients with injuries treated in the 1970s and 1980s.
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