People participate in journal clubs or book clubs. Geek Club is my affectionate term for documenting summaries of all the geeky stuff I read. I work as a physiatrist at the East Orange VA hospital in NJ. This may also serve as a resource for the residents who rotate through there.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

  • In England they found advice and manual therapy or advice alone to be more cost effective than ultrasound (duh!)
  • Hemiarthroplasty was found to have better outcome compared to internal fixation in 222 femoral neck fractured patients in Norway.
  • Radial contrast-enhanced CT can detect acetabular labrum injury almost as well as MRI (confirmed by arthroscopy). So go ahead and use it when MRI is contraindicated.
  • Vitamin D Deficiency in Residents of Academic Long-Term Care Facilities Despite Having Been Prescribed Vitamin D. Elovic and Heath reviewed the link between Vit D deficiency and musculoskeletal pain.