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Hormonal Birth Control Might Reduce Female Athletes’ ACL Tears

Female athletes are two to eight times more likely to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than their male counterparts performing the same sport at the same level. They are also at greater risk for other ligament and tendon injuries, ...

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How Some Sports Injuries Can Cause Arthritis at an Early Age

Your high school soccer career ended with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and knee surgery. Now, 20 years later, you’re experiencing increasing pain in that same knee and the doctor diagnoses the problem as post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).

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Cedars-Sinai Welcomes New Director of Hip Preservation

Cedars-Sinai has appointed orthopedic surgeon-scientist Patrick Whitlock, MD, PhD, as director of Hip Preservation in the Department of Orthopaedics and as an orthopedic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.

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Regenerative Medicine for Orthopedics

More than 500 million people worldwide live with osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease that causes severe, debilitating pain and often requires surgery or joint replacement. Cedars-Sinai is pioneering breakthroughs in regenerative ...

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Sutures and Power Tools: Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics Inspires Young Women

With drills buzzing, saws slicing, and hammers pounding, Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics once again hosted The Perry Initiative—an annual program designed to inspire young women to pursue careers in orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering.

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Femoral Lengthening With Deformity Correction

Geoffrey Marecek, MD, performs percutaneous osteotomy and lengthening of the distal femur in this 15-minute video. Marecek is an associate professor of Orthopaedics and director of the Limb Reconstruction Program at Cedars-Sinai.