Bladder exstrophy is relatively rare and even more rarely referred for rehabilitation. A nine-year-old girl with congenital bladder from Samar presented an abnormally low umbilicus, abdominal opening below the anteriorly located anus. The patient has had no prior medical consult. She underwent primary repair of exstrophy, anterior innominate bone osteotomy, application external fixators, tracti...

Grip strength during short and sustained maximal voluntary isometric contractions was measured in 28 females and 5 males with displaced Colles' fracture involving the distal radio-ulnar joint. The patients were randomized into two groups, treated either through immobilization with plaster cast or with external fixation. The recovery of isometric grip strength was followed over a two-year period...

Last year’s 34th Annual Meeting of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) was held in Marseille, France, on 15–18 April. A comprehensive pre-meeting course held on 15 April was dedicated to many complex aspects of long-bone deformity correction and bonelengthening procedures. The present issue of the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics collates manuscripts of the presentations made a...

The mechanical environment around the healing of broken bone is very important as it determines the way the fracture will heal. Over the past decade there has been great clinical interest in improving bone healing by altering the mechanical environment through the fixation stability around the lesion. One constraint of preclinical animal research in this area is the lack of experimental control...

During the recent Gulf war 63 patients with penetrating missile injuries (including 29 Iraqi prisoners of war) underwent operation in a British Army Field Hospital. Their injuries and initial operative management are reported. Fifty-one casualties (81 per cent) suffered an average of nine wounds (range 1-45) due to fragmentation weapons, and 12 casualties sustained bullet wounds. All wounds wer...

This paper focuses on the probabilistic numerical solution of the problems in mining, machine industry and biomechanics. Theory and applications of the Simulation-Based Reliability Assessment (SBRA) method are presented in the solution of the hard rock (ore) disintegration process (i.e. the bit moves into the ore and subsequently disintegrates it, the results are compared with experiments, new ...