Early Postoperative Weight-Bearing Ability after Total Hip Arthroplasty versus Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty in Elderly Patients with Femoral Neck Fracture.

Femoral neck fractures are among the most common types of fractures and particularly affect elderly patients. Two of the most common treatment strategies are total hip arthroplasty (THA) and bipolar hemiarthroplasty (BA). However, the role of the different treatment strategies in the postoperative weight-bearing ability in the early postoperative phase is still not entirely clear.

A National Survey on the Relationship of Youth Sport Specialization Behaviors to Self-Reported Anxiety and Depression in Youth Softball Players.

Background: There are little to no data on whether any associations exist between sport specialization and mental health in youth softball athletes.

Hypothesis: Highly specialized youth softball athletes will have worse self-reported depression and anxiety symptom scores compared with low and moderate specialized athletes.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Results of a National Survey on Sport Specialization Behavior and Throwing Arm Injury in Youth Softball Players.

Background: There are few data on throwing arm and shoulder injury in youth softball athletes, and no data on the influence of sport specialization on injury in softball.

Hypothesis: We hypothesized that highly specialized athletes, and pitchers in particular, demonstrating various sport specialization behaviors would be more likely to report an upper extremity overuse injury in the previous 12 months.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Weight-bearing restrictions reduce postoperative mobility in elderly hip fracture patients.

Background And Purpose: Reduced mobility is a severe threat to the clinical outcomes and survival of elderly hip fracture patients. These patients generally struggle to comply with partial weight bearing, yet postoperative weight-bearing restrictions are still recommended by nearly 25% of surgeons. Therefore, we hypothesized that weight-bearing restrictions in elderly hip fracture patients merely leads to reduced mobility, while transposing full weight to the fractured extremity remains unaffected disregarding the prescribed aftercare.