BACKGROUND Exercises are frequently performed in order to improve the efficacy of bracing and avoid its collateral effects. Very frequently there is a loss of correction during brace weaning in AIS treatment. AIM To verify the efficacy of exercises in reducing correction loss during brace weaning. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective controlled study. POPULATION Sixty-eight consecutive patients (ei...

OBJECTIVES Isolated distal fibular ankle fractures in children are very common and at very low risk for future complications. Nevertheless, standard therapy for these fractures still consists of casting, a practice that carries risks, inconveniences, and use of subspecialty health care resources. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to determine whether children who have these low-ri...

Compared with traditional buckling-restrained brace (BRB), the steel-angle-assembled (SAA-BRB) is an innovative BRB light-weight, accurate control of geometrical dimensions, easy installation, and convenient disassembly. The SAA-BRB comprises external restraining system a cruciform-sectional inner core. Four steel angles assemble connection high-strength bolts, spacers are installed between cor...

BACKGROUND Little information is available regarding the ankle braces orthopaedic sports medicine clinicians recommend or clinicians' concerns that may influence their decisions to recommend use of an ankle brace. HYPOTHESES (1) Clinicians most frequently recommend lace-up braces with straps. (2) Clinicians who are concerned about potential adverse side effects from ankle brace use are less l...

This was a prospective study on the association of brace compliance and curve progression in idiopathic scoliosis. Compliance was measured electronically by embedding a temperature sensor and logger in the Wilmington scoliosis brace. To date there have been no studies that relate objective measures of compliance in a scoliosis brace to treatment outcomes. Thirty-four subjects with idiopathic sc...

The histidine brace (His-brace) is a copper-binding motif that associated with both oxidative enzymes and proteinaceous copper chaperones. Here, we used biochemical structural methods to characterize mutants of His-brace-containing chaperone from Pseudomonas fluorescens (PfCopC). A total 15 amino acid variants in primary second sphere residues were produced characterised terms their redox prope...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of low levels of glutathione on post-thawed buck sperm quality. In this experiment, different concentrations of glutathione [0 (LG-0), 0.5 (LG-0.5), 1 (LG-1), 1.5 (LG-1.5), and 2 (LG-2) mM] were added in a soybean lecithin-based extender. A total of 16 ejaculates from four bucks were collected and pooled. Each pooled sample was divided into five...

In this study, the effects of three different viscous damper configurations, chevron, diagonal and toggle, as well as brace stiffness on the performance of brace-viscous damper system in various steel frams under different earthquake records were investigated. A finite element software, ANSYS, is exploited to develop the numerical models. To verify the numerical simulations, their results were ...