The Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology: reflecting Italian orthopaedics worldwide

Traumatology and Orthopaedics Clinic

ESWT in Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Extracorporeally generated shock waves were first used for kidney stone fragmentation in the early eighties. The treatment modality revolutionized urological stone management and developed into today's method of choice. Since the mid nineties shock waves are also used for several kinds of musculoskeletal applications such as tennis elbow, calcified shoulder, heel spur and nonunions. Analgesic e...

Microvascular surgery in orthopaedics and traumatology.

In the past ten years microsurgical techniques have been developed in the fields of neurosurgery, otolaryngology and plastic surgery. It is regrettable that most orthopaedic surgeons have shown little interest in such fine surgery. There are several situations where microsurgery would be of value in orthopaedic research and practice, especially the hand, nerves and small vessels. Research relat...

Main Tendencies in the Development of Contemporary Traumatology and Orthopaedics

Human life became more intensive in the ХIХ and ХХ centuries due to the development of mining, metallurgy, automobile industry, city and housing construction, military manufacturing, and construction of powerful electric stations. Despite that such a development has made the human life on the planet more comfortable, the contemporary production spheres have caused several technogenic disasters ...

The Use of Ilizarov Technique in Paediatric Traumatology and Orthopaedics

Paediatric Orthopaedics” is deformities, defects, and dysplasia, deficiencies of limb, infections and trauma. All these conditions can be very effectively managed by Ilizarov technique (Original Kurgan Pattern technique). It was rather difficult and sometimes impossible to treat certain conditions, which has become possible by Ilizarov. Conventional methods needed many procedures to achieve suc...