deformities, arthroscopy, wry neck, surgery of the spinal cord, amputation and prostheses, and sports injuries — were presented in addition to the aforementioned topics. As such, the independence of the JOA from the Japan Surgical Society reflected great credit on Japanese orthopedic surgeons at that time. After 1940, war wounds were frequently the main theme of JOA annual congresses; and owing...

Locking plates are important tools in the orthopedic surgeon’s armamentarium. They have demonstrated tremendous effectiveness in dealing with challenging fractures yet the specific indications and techniques for their use is still the subject of considerable debate (2, 41). Inappropriate application of standard orthopedic operative principles may compromise patient outcome, frustrate surgeons, ...

The management of the polytraumatized orthopedic patient remains a challenging issue. In recent years many efforts have been made to develop rescue techniques and to promote guidelines for the management of these patients. Currently controversies persist between two orthopedic approaches: the Early Total Care and the Damage Control Orthopedics. An overview of the current literature on the ortho...

Among the power drills (Electrical/Pneumatic/Battery) used in Orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. Surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use Orthopedic battery drills (OBD) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. "Hardware" or Engineering battery drill (HBD) is a viable alternative to OBD. HBD is easy to procure, rugge...

Jui-Sheng Sun, MD., Ph.D. 1, 3 Yang-Hwei Tsuang, MD., Ph.D. 2 Shih-I Lai, BS. 3 Hongsen Chiang MD. 3 Li-Ting Chen, M.S. 3 and Feng-Huei Lin, Ph.D. 4,5 1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yun-Lin Hospital, Department of Health, The Executive Yuan, Yuan-Lin County, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, China Medical College Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 3 Department of Orthopedi...

The utility of nanotechnology in medicine, specifically within the field of orthopedics, is a topic of extensive research. Our review provides a unique comprehensive overview of the current and potential future uses of nanotechnology with respect to orthopedic sub-specialties. Nanotechnology offers an immense assortment of novel applications, most notably the use of nanomaterials as scaffolds t...