Here are 13 joint replacement surgeons and industry experts discussing whether partial knee replacements are a passing trend or the way of the future.

DJO Global has launched the Empi Active Knee TENS System for treating knee pain, according to a DJO Global news release.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine sports medicine specialists are leading a national study to analyze why revision ACL reconstruction has a high risk of failure, according to a Washington University news release.

MedShape Solutions, an Atlanta-based medical device company focused on shape memory orthopedic devices, has received the Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health to support its research, according to a MedShape Solutions news release.

This is a letter to the editor written by Walter P. Spires, Jr., CEO, ANOVA Orthopaedic Solutions.

One of our responsibilities as a committed orthopedic implant supply partner is to help keep you informed on developments deemed important to facilities, surgeons, and patients. The subject of patient specific cutting guides is one of those. Beginning in earnest at the 2010 AAOS meeting, the large orthopedic companies began touting them as the latest in technology and technique advancement for total knees.  Information is front and center on web pages and blogs. Use of these guides is also touted by a number of well-known surgeons, some of whom are also paid consultants to the companies. That is a matter of record, not a criticism.  

Steven Nguyen, MD, a joint replacement specialist at Florida Hospital in Orlando, has been performing the Freedom Knee Replacement procedure to preserve the patient's natural anatomy, according to an ABC news report.

James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., recently performed arthroscopic knee surgery on Tennessee Titans defensive end Derrick Morgan, according to a report from The Tennesseean.