Dr. Roy Davidovitch, one of our Orthopedic Surgeons here at OrthoManhattan and top Hip Specialists in New York, recently spoke with the New York Lifestyles Magazine about some of the ground breaking hip techniques he’s mastered and what he’s working Read More…
A study showed the codes printed on children’s casts helped parents, OrthoManhattan’s Dr. Alton Barron lends his expertise to ABC News. When your child fractures a bone and gets a cast, the experience can be very overwhelming for both Read More…
The New York Times shares the story of mother Cynthia Frey, and the mysterious pain in her wrist that started about a week after she gave birth to her son, Jack. ”It was a shooting pain from my thumb up Read More…
Excerpt taken from Healthline.com. New approach to common hip surgery allows patients to come in at 9 a.m. and leave the hospital at 5 p.m. Replacing a hip used to be invasive and painful. It used to require cutting through Read More…
Excerpt taken from newswise.com Minimally-Invasive Procedure Enables Patients to Regain Mobility Faster While Recovering at Home the Same Day of Surgery. NYU Langone Medical Center in January became the first academic medical center in the New York City area to Read More…
Excerpt taken from MDLinx.com Over the past decade, medical students and residents have exhibited a marked decline in the manual dexterity skills necessary for completing basic clinical procedures—and it may stem from their lack of hands-on hobbies, according to a Read More…
More than 500 patients have been treated with the newly FDA approved Barricaid annular closure device, but only in Europe. Manufactured by Woburn, Massachusetts-based Intrinsic Therapeutics, Barricaid was tested in a European multicenter, randomized controlled trial involving 554 patients. The Read More…
For the first time in the United States, titanium bone-anchored implants were used to repair large annular defects during diskectomies. These surgeries were initially performed in May 2019 at New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center following US Food and Read More…
Needle aponeurotomy or percutaneous fasciotomy, involves using the bevel of a hypodermic needle to essentially shred the ropes of constricting fascia characteristic of Dupuytren’s disease. The disorder, named for Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, a 19th-century French surgeon who wrote about it, Read More…
New research presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2019 Annual Meeting reports on the results of a major undertaking by the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NYU Langone Health to curb opioid prescriptions and usage rates following common orthopedic Read More…