May 2020

While options for conservative treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) are limited, controversy continues to surround the safety and efficacy of commonly-used corticosteroid injections. Key research questions include how long clinically important benefits last and whether and how much corticosteroid injections damage the cartilage.

After being treated at an orthopedic practice near his home, Kevin Ply still had severe knee pain. David Huxtable and Kendall Thompson still had pain and instability long after knee surgery at other orthopedic practices. None of these patients was satisfied with what they were told about their knees or the treatments they had received.

When Chadwick Prodromos, MD, wanted to publish a book on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction to help orthopedic surgeons improve outcomes for every patient, he selected a “dream team” of ACL experts to write the chapters.