Factors Related to Relapse of Congenital Talipes Equinovarus (CTEV) After the Ponseti Method.

Background: Congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) is one of the common congenital disorders in pediatric orthopedic practice that affects a large group of children.It is a combination of four parts of deformity that affect either a single foot or both feet. Our aim in this study is to estimate the prevalence and incidence of CTEV and to evaluate the risk factors that lead to relapse in some children to avoid relapse in future and complex surgical interventions, as well as to improve the final outcome.

Burnout syndrome among southern region orthopedic surgeons, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Burnout is known as result of long term exposing to stress. There are some factors that may cause stress in physicians: nature of work, their training, their public image, their families and themselves. The person who has burnout syndrome (BOS) seems like to have tiredness, low energy, nervousness, and mentally unstable.

Awareness of disc herniation among general population in Aseer province, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Herniated lumbar disc is a depositions of discs material (nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus) behind the intervertebral disk. Intervertebral disc connected the vertebral bodies together by pad of fibrocartilage. The major functions of intervertebral disc are mechanical, transferring load coming from the body weight and muscle contractions by spinal columns and letting the curving, flexion, and contortion.