ACL surgery is a procedure that doctors use to replace a torn ligament in your knee. The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is a band of tissue inside your knee. It gets damaged when it stretches or ...

ACL surgery involves using a tendon graft to replace the injured ligament. Before surgery, you will change into a gown and ...

Using femoral nerve block catheters after ACL reconstruction maintains postoperative pain below the moderate-to-severe threshold for up to four days, according to a recent study. Brian Williams, MD, ...

The adductor canal block preserves quadriceps strength and provides equivalent levels of postoperative analgesia for outpatient ACL surgery as the conventional femoral nerve block, according to a new ...

A recent study of an ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia technique, called femoral nerve block, shows that it leads to less opioid use and allows the majority of patients to go home within hours of ...

MELVILLE, NY--(Marketwired - December 01, 2014) - North American Partners in Anesthesia's Sonia Szlyk, M.D., will be a featured panelist presenting to over 1,000 healthcare providers specializing in ...

Postoperative pain is a primary reason young children and teenagers spend a night in the hospital after knee surgery. A recent study by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital found that an ...

Regional anesthesia did not impair functional recovery in adolescents who underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, with most patients achieving good functional outcomes by 6 months ...

MELVILLE, NY--(Marketwired - December 01, 2016) - North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) announced today that Director of Regional Anesthesia for NAPA's mid-Atlantic region, Sonia Szlyk, MD will ...

MELVILLE, NY--(Marketwired - December 03, 2015) - North American Partners in Anesthesia's Sonia Szlyk, M.D., will be a featured speaker to over 1,000 healthcare providers at the Orthopaedic Summit ...