Advocacy in action: Elevating sarcoma awareness and advancing the orthopaedic profession

Joel L. Mayerson, MD, FAOA, FAAOS

July marks Sarcoma Awareness Month, an opportunity to highlight a group of rare but often devastating malignancies managed within orthopaedic surgery.

OTA outgoing president: ‘Basic instructions before leaving Earth’

Douglas W. Lundy, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAOS

I titled my address as outgoing OTA president: “Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.”

The next device is coming, and so are the fractures

Melina Khorrami; Ali Rezazadeh Shirazi; Saumith Menon; Muhammad-Amin Munshi; Neset Tang, MD; Pooya Hosseinzadeh, MD, FAAOS

In 2015, hoverboard-related injuries rose by an average of 208% over each of the four preceding years, and pediatric wrist fractures climbed more than 4,000% compared with 2014.

A father’s perspective on the challenges of treating metastatic chondrosarcoma

Jeffrey Kramer

Shayna Elise Kramer was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma in her spine and endured two major surgeries. She told us that if the children could travel to a strange country alone and have major heart surgery, then she could deal with her surgery. Not once did Shayna ever complain about being sick or dwell on her suffering.