Case 1 description Buddy is an active 33-year-old man who presents to the emergency department (ED) complaining of pain in his left ankle and foot after falling while back-country skiing 3 days ago. The fall involved a moderatespeed slide down a steep chute and rotational release of the left leg from the ski binding. Buddy experienced immediate pain to the lateral malleolar region. Immediately ...

Excision of the distal clavicle (DCE) is a commonly carried out surgical procedure used in the management of acromioclavicular joint pathology. Although successful outcomes after both open and arthroscopic distal clavicle excision occur in a high percentage of patients, treatment failures have been reported, creating a difficult clinical scenario for the treating orthopedic surgeon. The most co...

Results 206 patients, 143 girls (69%) and 63 boys (31%) with JIA were followed at University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana from September 2010 to January 2013. Twenty-two out of 206 (11%) patients had pain in the neck and/or limited range of motion of cervical spine. Twelve out of 206 (6%) patients had persistent cervical spine symptoms, MRI of the cervical spine with application of paramagneti...

Multi-joint disease pathologies in the lumbar spine, including ligamentum flavum (LF) hypertrophy and intervertebral disc (IVD) bulging or herniation contribute to spinal stenosis (LSS), a highly prevalent condition characterized by symptomatic narrowing of canal. Clinical hypertrophic LF is loss elastic fibers increase collagen fibers, resulting fibrotic thickening scar formation. In this stud...

BACKGROUND Biomechanical factors may play a role in osteoarthritis (OA) development and progression. Previous biomechanical studies have indicated that types of footwear may modulate forces across the knee joint, and high heeled womens' shoes in particular are hypothesised to be detrimental to lower limb joint health. This analysis of data from a case control study investigated persistent users...

Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging arboviral pathogen. In 2014, an explosive CHIKV outbreak occurred in Grenada, West Indies, infecting approximately 60% of the population. In approximately 50% of cases, CHIKV infection transitions to painful arthralgia that can persist for years. Elucidation of the risk factors for chronic disease is imperative to the development of effectiv...

For ages pain complaints of patients suffering from depression belong to the everyday challenges of general practitioner. Typical diagnostic designations comprised ‘ dépression larvée ’ or ‘masked depression’ in the past. In some cases, depressive symptoms are masked by pain symptoms and therefore ignored by the physicians. Up to half of the patients suffering from acute depression are not diag...

This article describes 3 patients with rheumatoid arthritis in which hip joint conditions were similar to rapidly destructive arthropathy of the hip joint. The patients had the following additional characteristics: (1) age at diagnosis was comparatively older; (2) rheumatoid arthritis had an onset after age 40 years; (3) severe rheumatoid arthritis was present in >4 major joints; (4) long-term ...

Joint pain is a common complaint in the paediatric age group with overuse and traumatic injury being causes. However, joint involving multiple sites, persistent or recurrent, severe may suggest other diagnoses. One of possible groups diagnosis rheumatology nature, which often difficult to diagnose, especially patients. Gouty arthritis rather uncommon problem children missed at initial presentat...