Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Archive — Page 9 of 13
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October 20, 2016
Effort aims to measure resiliency in injured soldiers
Physical therapists use questionnaires to identify patients at risk for slow recovery, but those tools aren’t tailored to assess the resiliency of injured U.S. military personnel. -
October 20, 2016
Diabetes study seeks to identify biomarkers for fracture risk
Medical studies have established that people with type 2 diabetes are more susceptible to fractures, but the biological process that weakens their bones is not understood. -
October 13, 2016
Guidelines to help concussed students return to school
Tennessee is about to join a handful of states with “Return to Learn” guidelines that recommend how to help students who have suffered concussions ease back into the classroom. -
October 6, 2016
Studies aim to speed, track peripheral nerve recovery
Surgeons have limited tools to successfully repair and track the recovery of peripheral nerves that have been severely damaged as a result of a traumatic injury, but Vanderbilt investigators hope to change this through research studies recently funded with more than $3 million in grants from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. -
September 15, 2016
Team physician
Andrew Gregory, M.D., poses with bronze medals won by the United States men's and women's volleyball teams at the recent 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Gregory, an orthopaedic surgeon with Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, served as the team physician for both the men's and women's teams. -
August 2, 2016
VUMC mourns loss of Orthopaedics innovator Brooks
Arthur L. Brooks, M.D., an innovator of surgical techniques and a mentor to younger orthopaedic surgeons, died Thursday, July 28, at age 91. -
July 28, 2016
Seminar focuses on latest concussion research
Neuropsychologist Gary Solomon, Ph.D., recently weighed in on one of the hottest debates in sports medicine, asserting that research doesn’t support the popular theory that concussions put athletes at higher risk for psychiatric illness.