Transforming Veteran Rehabilitation Care: Learnings from a Remote Digital Approach for Musculoskeletal Pain.

While musculoskeletal pain (MSP) stands as the most prevalent health condition among Veterans, timely and high-quality care is often hindered due to access barriers. Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a healthier lifestyle among Veterans, aimed to assess innovative approaches to veteran care. This is a single-arm pilot study investigating the feasibility, clinical outcomes, engagement, and satisfaction of a remote multimodal digital care program among Veterans with MSP.

AOA Critical Issues Symposium: Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis.

Gun violence is an epidemic throughout the United States and is increasing around the world-it is a public health crisis. The impact of gun violence is not limited to the victims (our patients); it also extends to the physicians and caregivers who are taking care of these patients every day. Even more broadly, gun violence affects those living and going to work in potentially dangerous environments.

Brain regulates weight bearing bone through PGE2 skeletal interoception: implication of ankle osteoarthritis and pain.

Bone is a mechanosensitive tissue and undergoes constant remodeling to adapt to the mechanical loading environment. However, it is unclear whether the signals of bone cells in response to mechanical stress are processed and interpreted in the brain. In this study, we found that the hypothalamus of the brain regulates bone remodeling and structure by perceiving bone prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) concentration in response to mechanical loading.

Rate of Tibiotalocalcaneal (TTC) Fusion Using the Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) Intramedullary Nail in Developing Countries.

Outcomes of the Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) nail have been reported for femur and tibial fractures, but its use in tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis (TTCA) is not well studied. Radiographic and clinical outcomes of TTCA using the SIGN database in patients with > 6 months of radiographic follow up were analyzed. Rates of tibiotalar (TT) fusion and subtalar (ST) fusion at final follow up were assessed by two independent reviewers.