A meticulous capsuloplasty is needed to maintain concentric reduction in the surgical treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). The authors present a new capsuloplasty technique that was named as 'reverse U-shaped capsuloplasty'. It was performed in 72 dislocated hips of 62 children with a mean age of 2.7 years. The reverse U-shaped flap, created in the redundant superolateral caps...

INTRODUCTION Studies of gait dynamics revealed the complex motions that the knee must undergo in sync with the hip and ankle, in both the swing and support phase of walking. If these motions are restricted, usually as a consequence of cerebral palsy or arthrogryposis, normal gait is hindered; the patient may be able to walk for very short distances or, eventually, not at all. Children with knee...

OBJECTIVES To show the preoperative planning and results from surgical treatment for paralytic hip dislocation among patients with cerebral palsy. The techniques used were proximal femoral varus derotation osteotomy in association with Dega iliac osteotomy, without opening the joint capsule. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of ten hips in eight patients with spastic quadriplegic ce...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the clinical and radiographic medium-term results from surgical treatment of developmental dysplasia through open reduction, Salter et al.'s osteotomy and capsuloplasty. METHODS 13 patients were evaluated, 13 hips treated surgically by the proposed technique between 2004 and 2011. A clinical and radiographic evaluation was conducted by Dutoit et al. and Severin et al. cr...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to report the association of dorsal wrist capsular avulsion with scapholunate ligament instability and to evaluate the results of an arthroscopy-assisted repair. Methods We retrospectively reviewed 10 patients with a mean age of 39.1 years suffering from chronic dorsal wrist pain. They underwent a wrist arthroscopy with an evaluation of the scapholunate liga...

capsular contraction is a frequent complication following breast augmentation. on the other hand, capsular weakness, a not widely recognized complication, may occur around the implant. a weak capsule allows the migration of the prosthesis to the lateral region of the thoracic region or inferiorly, towards the abdomen, due to gravitational forces. the cause of capsular weakness remains unresolve...

BACKGROUND the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of arthroscopic capsuloplasty in the treatment of failed primary arthroscopic treatment of glenohumeral instability. METHODS we retrospectively examined at a minimum of 3-years follow-up 22 patients who underwent arthroscopic treatment between 1999 and 2007 who had recurrent anterior shoulder instability with a post-surgical failure. A...