Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Historically, glenohumeral OA in young patients was treated with TSA or hemiarthroplasty with metallic heads.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pyrocarbon hemiarthroplasty led to a 95% prosthesis survival rate at a mean follow-up of 4.5 years. Among active ...

There’s a trend toward bone preservation in human joint repairs that’s possible in part to a specialty implant material called pyrolytic carbon, or pyrocarbon for short. The traditional materials used ...

First clinical use of Stryker’s Tornier Pyrocarbon Humeral Head completed at Denver Surgery Center in Colorado Stryker's Tornier Pyrocarbon Humeral Head is the first FDA-cleared pyrocarbon implant for ...

AUSTIN, Texas, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. announced today that it has received FDA approval on the first PyroCarbon implant for the foot. The Ascension(R) PyroSphere(R) implant ...

From seniors in high school to senior citizens, each year more than 100,000 people will need a shoulder replacement. For older adults, arthritis is the main reason for severe shoulder pain. For ...

"It's called an alternate bearing surface, called Pyrocarbon," said Dr. E. Scott Paxton with University Orthopedics. Last year, he became the first in Rhode Island to use this new shoulder implant.

Metal-on-glenoid contact — particularly cobalt-chromium — has been the usual suspect, blamed for abrasion, erosion, and glenoid-sided pain that turns postoperative optimism into clinic-room ...