For 20 years, Mary Decker Slaney has been a dynamic middle-distance runner and orthopedic patient.

It is not clear to what extent this phenomenon negatively affects orthopedic patients.

She added: "We have found that as there is more concentration on bringing down other types of waiting lists orthopedic patients have suffered.

The new orthopedic unit on the hospital's fourth floor is dedicated exclusively to the care of orthopedic patients.

This is the first journal to address the geriatric orthopedic patient specifically.

Results are not reliable when the patient is symptomless and must be checked, for example in high risk postoperative patients mainly in orthopedic patients.

NOHC was the nation's first hospital dedicated exclusively to the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of neurological and orthopedic patients.

Tom Flynn, who broke his left wrist in the game, seemed to be the world's happiest orthopedic patient.

It has expanded to include orthopedic patients with chronic back pains, others with respiratory or vascular conditions and patients in the cardiac-care unit.

Most of her experience was with young orthopedic and geriatric patients.