Publications by authors named "S Cooperman"
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- - Plantar heel pain affects around 10% of people, primarily caused by plantar fasciitis, which sometimes comes with plantar calcaneal spurs whose impact on surgery is unclear.
- - A study of 136 plantar fascia surgeries found that excising these spurs led to longer recovery times, including delayed symptom resolution and time before patients could bear weight in shoes.
- - Right-sided surgeries had worse outcomes in terms of symptom resolution and higher retreatment rates, but there were no significant differences in complication rates between those who had the spur excised and those who did not.
Many fixation options exist for correction of a hallux valgus deformity with a first tarsometatarsal joint arthrodesis with pros and cons to each. Few have looked at utilizing a shape memory alloy staple made from nitinol for fixation. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a modified Lapidus technique using a nitinol (shape memory alloy) staple combined with a two-screw construct for first tarsometatarsal joint arthrodesis in correcting hallux valgus deformity.
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- The study examined whether foot and ankle surgeons could tell the difference between AI-generated abstracts and those written by humans, using ChatGPT 3.0 to create new samples.
- Surgeons participated in a blinded survey and showed only a 50.5% accuracy rate, which is not significantly better than guessing, and their ability to discern improved little over time.
- The findings suggest that current AI-generated abstracts closely resemble human content, raising concerns about reliably identifying the authorship in medical research.
Recidivistic cholesteatoma encompasses residual as well as recurrent disease, and can occur in up to 61% of cases. Pediatric disease may have a higher propensity for recidivism. Serial physical examination and MRI including non-EPI DWI sequences are useful in surveillance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a natural progression from educational pamphlets to the worldwide web, and now artificial intelligence (AI), OpenAI chatbots provide a simple way of obtaining pathology-specific patient information, however, little is known concerning the readability and quality of foot and ankle surgery information. This investigation compares such information using the commercially available OpenAI ChatGPT Chatbot and FootCareMD®. A list of common foot and ankle pathologies from FootCareMD® were queried and compared with similar results using ChatGPT.
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