January 2022 Newsletter

Dear Respected Friends & Colleagues,

This month’s Newsletter will focus on Tips to Stay Active, a Bone-Healthy Recipe and Highlights from our Research Department. We hope you enjoy!?

Staying healthy and maintaining bone health is of utmost importance. Learn about the best bone-healthy activities and exercises below, to keep your bones in their best shape!

Walking To Grow Your Bones

Walking is good for bone health. Because walking is a weight-bearing exercise, the pressure that you exert on your bones in the process directly stimulates the formation of new bone mass.

This relationship between applied force and the growth of bone, known as Wolff's Law, is your most powerful tool for building stronger and more resilient bones. Thanks to mechanosensitive bone cells, your body knows what parts of your bone are supporting your physical activity. It responds by making those bones stronger so that you can keep doing that activity safely.

Walking, and all forms of mobility, are essential to your independence. It turns out that the more you walk, the more you are able to keep walking. Not only does walking help your bones stay strong and capable of supporting you, but it strengthens your cardiovascular and immune systems.

Kickboxing

If you want to burn calories and enhance flexibility at the same time, little can beat kickboxing's explosive power and metabolic burn. One research study showed that five weeks of kickboxing brought significant improvements in flexibility, speed, agility, and upper body muscle power.

Kickboxing might seem like an intense option; however, kickboxing offers both low-impact and high-impact training. There are many ways to reap the benefits of kickboxing, including even at-home videos and tutorials!

Research Corner

Karina Wang, our Clinical Research Associate, and her colleague, Timothy Forester, won the Best Presentation award at the Orthopaedic Summit: Evolving Techniques in Las Vegas, Nevada last month. Their work, Incidence & Comorbidity Analysis Of Avascular Necrosis Leading To Total Hip Replacement In A Closed Urban Setting, was the culmination of their research at BronxCare Health System with Dr. Ira Kirschenbaum. We are proud of you Karina!

Check out our research being presented next month at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida:

• Do Pre-operative Corticosteroid Injections Increase The Rate Of Re-ruptures And Infections In Primary Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair?
• Isolated Lateral Joint Osteoarthritis: Survivorship And Patient Acceptable Symptom State At A Mean 10 Years Following Lateral Fixed-bearing Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty.
• Kinematic Alignment In Fixed-bearing Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Results In Return To Activity At Mean Ten-year Follow-up

If you know a medical student or college student interested in the field of orthopaedics and sports medicine, check out our Summer Research Internship. More information can be found here. Applications are due March 1st, 2022.

Roundtable Discussion

Q: How will technology change your clinical practice? How will it change medicine in the future?

?A: Innovation drives advancement in medicine. The goal is for better patient outcomes and better value for health care. Within the 15 years I have been in practice, many aspects and technologies of medicine have changed. As a shoulder and sports medicine surgeon, I have seen changes with preoperative planning including the ability to customize guides for patients with 3-D printed patient-specific guides. Recently, some companies have started to 3-D print implantable devices including shoulder and knee replacements. Robotics will likely continue this drive forward with the ability to plan a patient's surgery. The robot will make cuts in the bone for appropriate placement of the prosthesis. I have also seen some upcoming technology with augmented reality to better position tunnels for ACL reconstruction and shoulder replacements. Some knee replacements now have computer chips in them to give real time data about the prosthesis. Nanotechnology could move us into a direction we never thought possible. I believe we have not scratched the surface of what is yet to come. I am excited to see what continues to be developed and I will likely be an early adopter of this technology in order to offer better outcomes for my patients.

Many thanks to Dr. Shariff K. Bishai, DO, MS, FAOAO, FAAOS, FAANA at Associated Orthopedists of Detroit, PC, for this month’s Roundtable Discussion! Dr. Bishai was our sports medicine fellow at the Orthopaedic Foundation in 2006-2007.

A Quick and Easy Bone-Healthy Sack

Eating bone-healthy foods is not an easy feat; it takes some work to make sure you are getting the proper nutrients and vitamins your body needs to stay active and healthy. Health bars and on-the-go snacks are often our go-to snacks; however, they are full of hydrogenated oils, emulsifiers, and even high fructose corn syrup—all of which can have adverse effects on your health. With this easy, make-ahead recipe, you can have bone-healthy snacks anytime!

Bone-Healthy Chocolate Cherry Nut Bars

1 cup of almonds

1/3 cup of walnuts

1 ? cup of dried cherries

4 or 5 whole pitted dates

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

A large pinch of ground cinnamon

2 tablespoons of dark, organic chocolate chips

Before starting, prepare a baking sheet with wax or parchment paper.

Instructions:

1. Pulse the almonds and walnuts in a food processor until they form small chunks (don’t let them get too finely ground).
2. Add the dates, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Blend until the mixture becomes cohesive, then add cherries and chocolate chips.
3. Pour the mixture out onto the baking sheet and cover it with a second sheet of parchment paper. Spread the mixture evenly using a rolling pin, until it is about ? inch thick.
4. Remove the top layer of paper and refrigerate for 10 minutes, then cut into bars. The bars are ready to eat and can be refrigerated or kept at room temperature!

Many thanks to Save Institute for the “Walking to Grow Your Bones” segment and the wonderful recipe. We hope you enjoyed this newsletter! Stay safe, healthy and happy.?

Warm regards,?

Janine Bahar??

Executive Director

Orthopaedic Foundation?

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