Does the use of high-heeled shoes lead to fore-foot pathology? A controlled cohort study comprising 197 women.

Background: High-heeled shoes have been suggested as a main explanation for the female dominance in foot pain and deformities. Aim of study was to test this hypothesis scientifically.

Methods: Women 40-66 years were included in two groups.

A sixteen-year follow-up of three operative techniques for the treatment of acute ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament.

Background: This study compares three surgical procedures that we used in the past to treat ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament: acute primary repair, acute repair augmented with a synthetic ligament-augmentation device, and acute repair augmented with autologous bone-patellar tendon-bone graft.

Methods: This is the third report on a group of patients who were randomized to the three different procedures between 1986 and 1988. There were fifty patients in each group.