1 From Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY (R.S.A.); Department of Radiology and Imaging, Division of Ultrasound and Body Imaging (R.S.A.), Sports Service at Department of Orthopaedics (S.F., A.P., R.F.W., W.K.), and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division (S.L.), Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021; Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether the foundation programme for junior doctors, implemented across the United Kingdom in 2005, provides adequate training in musculoskeletal medicine. We recruited 112 doctors on completion of their foundation programme and assessed them using the Freedman and Bernstein musculoskeletal examination tool. Only 8.9% passed the assessment. Those with expo...

the perioperative imaging of a pregnant woman presents a unique challenge to orthopaedics surgeon as concern about the radiation risk to the embryo or fetus. this article highlights effect of radiation exposure on foetus.i would like to discuss about the amount of radiation exposure in a pregnant woman during fluoroscopic guided closed femoral interlock nailing as radiation has significant canc...

BACKGROUND In November 1992, a pilot scheme was established in Doncaster to provide an on-site physiotherapy service in six non-fundholding general practices covering a population of approximately 44,000 people. AIM The aim of the pilot scheme was to transfer a hospital-based physiotherapy service, to which general practitioners had direct access, to a primary care setting and to reduce refer...

from China. Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2012;98: in press, The editorial board of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Surgery and Research has the opportunity to publish a manuscript comparing the evolution of orthopaedic publications from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong over the last 10 years [1]. Many of our readers may wonder why this paper is being published, considering its general scope and low like...

Authors’ contributions FW participated in the study design, wrote most of the manuscript, performed most of the experiments and analyzed data. DCM, GZ, YL, XW, and JKL participated in the study design, data interpretation and revised the manuscript critically. LW and QC conceived the study, participated in its design, data analysis and revised the manuscript carefully and critically. All author...