Orthopedists invest significant amounts of effort and time trying to understand the biomechanics of articular joints and to quantify the differences occurring within a given population. While new image acquisition and processing methods currently generate richer-thanever geometry and kinematic datasets that are subject-specific, the computational and visualization tools needed to enable the com...

BACKGROUND Despite that a mid-third simple transverse femoral shaft fracture has been traditionally treated with an unlocked reamed intramedullary nail, recently a static locked reamed intramedullary nail has been favored by some orthopedists to avoid missing extended fracture lines. A prospective comparison of both nails was conducted to investigate the superiority between the nails from biome...

INTRODUCTION The surgical treatment of unstable cervical fractures is challenging for spinal surgeons. Unstable cervical fractures associated with spondyloarthropathy and deformities that alter function, form and stability present a greater challenge. Having multiple options to manage this difficult situation is important to all spine surgeons and the results of each case depends on the singula...

Spinal deformity is a disease mainly suffered by teenagers during their growth stage particularly from element school to middle school. There are many different causes of abnormal spinal curves, but all of them are unknown. The most common type is termed “idiopathic” that show 80% of the spinal deformity. Spinal deformity is a serious disease, mainly suffered by teenagers, especially girl’s stu...

OBJECTIVES Traditionally, orthopedic outpatient waiting lists are long, and many referrals are for conditions that do not respond to interventions available at an orthopedic outpatient department. The overall objective of this trial was to investigate whether it is possible to reduce orthopedic waiting lists through integrative medicine. Specific aims were to compare the effects of naprapathic ...

The removal of the distal fragment of broken intramedullary nail often poses an important technical challenge. Many methods have been published on the removal of the distal piece of a broken distal closed section intramedullary nail that involve the use of hooks, olive wires or special instruments that are often not available to the general orthopedist working in a smaller setup. Additionally, ...

BACKGROUND A die-punch fracture is a depression fracture of the lunate fossa of the distal radius. We propose a morphological classification of die-punch fractures that includes five types: center depression fractures, vertical depression fractures, volar depression fractures, dorsal depression fractures, and double die-punch fractures. METHODS The radiographs of 112 die-punch fractures treat...

Gait analysis is an objective tool for the clinical assessment of locomotor activity in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Correct diagnosis and properly planned rehabilitation are necessary for enhanced motor functions in persons suffering from cerebral palsy. Orthoses, orthopedic operations, medications and physiotherapy are the most common treatments. However, there is still a lack of object...

Background: Prescribed opioid medication after orthopedic sports surgery has been shown to exceed patient requirements. In 2017, as a response the epidemic, Ohio passed Opioid Prescribing Guidelines (OPG) limiting narcotic prescriptions for acute pain. This study sought evaluate effects of OPG on prescribing behavior orthopedists following knee arthroscopy (KA), shoulder (SA), and anterior cruc...

background: the singh index is an inexpensive simple method to evaluate bone density, commonly used to assess osteoporosis is based on the radiological appearance of the trabecular bone structure of the proximal femur on a plain antero-posterior (ap) radiograph. the purpose of this study was to compare between singh index and bone mineral density measurement using dual energy x-ray absorptiomet...