Impact on Quality of Life of Full-Time and Night-Time Braces in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Study Design: Randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To compare the effect on quality of life of night-time (NT) and full-time (FT) brace treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).

Summary Of Background Data: Conservative treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with full-time (FT) braces has proven to prevent the risk of progression and the need for surgery, with an inversely proportional relationship to the number of hours worn.

Efficiency assessment of follow-up methodology of patients with knee replacement to predict post-surgical functionality: a protocol for randomised control PROKnee trial.

Introduction: Even when total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an extended treatment, most patients experience a suboptimal evolution after TKA. The objectives of this study are the following: (1) to determine the effectiveness of two different prosthesis stabilisation systems on the functionality in activities of daily life, and (2) to determine prognostic biomarkers of knee prosthesis function based on radiological information, quantification of cytokines, intra-articular markers and biomechanical functional evaluation to predict successful evolution.

Methods And Analysis: The PROKnee trial was designed as a randomised controlled patient-blinded trial with two parallel groups that are currently ongoing.

Fall classification, incidence and circumstances in patients undergoing total knee replacement.

To propose a fall-classification framework for patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR). In addition, we reinforced the available evidence on fall incidence and circumstances and compared the characteristics of fallers versus. nonfallers.

A randomized controlled trial assessing the effects of preoperative strengthening plus balance training on balance and functional outcome up to 1 year following total knee replacement.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of including balance training in a preoperative strengthening intervention on balance and functional outcomes in patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) and compare these effects to those induced by preoperative strengthening and no intervention.

Methods: Eighty-two subjects scheduled for TKR were randomly allocated into the strengthening (ST, n = 28) group: a preoperative lower limb strengthening intervention; the strengthening + balance (ST + B, n = 28) group: same intervention augmented with balance training; and the control group (n = 26). The Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the function in daily living subscale of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS-ADL) were the primary outcomes.

Chondrocostal grafting for lateral osteochondral injury of the metacarpal head.

Osteochondral injuries of the metacarpal head require anatomical restoration to prevent limitations in range of motion and osteoarthritis. Osteochondral bone grafting is a viable option, especially in younger patients. Central injuries allow for different types of grafting, but when the injured area is on the lateral portion of the metacarpal head, the graft must include both a cortical and a cartilaginous portion.

[Synovial chondromatosis of the knee. A rare cause of knee pain in pediatric age].

Synovial osteochondromatosis consists of a synovial metaplasia which affects 1 per 100 000 people. It is a very rare disease among children. It typically affects large joints of the body, especially the knee.

Effects of balance and proprioceptive training on total hip and knee replacement rehabilitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Backgound: Balance and proprioceptive deficits are frequently persistent after total joint replacement, limiting functionality and involving altered movement patterns and difficulties in walking and maintaining postural control among patients.

Research Question: The goal of this systematic review was to evaluate the short- and mid-term effects of proprioceptive and balance training for patients undergoing total knee and hip replacement.

Methods: This is a systematic review of literature.

Functional outcome after calcaneus fractures: a comparison between polytrauma patients and isolated fractures.

Background: Displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures (DIACFs) can have long-term consequences in terms of foot pain and disability. This injury frequently occurs in the context of polytrauma patients and its influence in long-term functional prognosis is well known. The purpose of this study is to compare the etiology, severity, and functional outcome of the operated DIACFs between polytrauma patients and isolated cases.

Comparison of mobile- and fixed-bearing cemented total knee arthroplasty.

Concern about polyethylene wear and related osteolysis after knee arthroplasty has developed in the last years. Mobile-bearing knee prostheses were designed in order to reduce the influence of this critical factor on long-term success of total knee replacement. We present a prospective study comparing clinical and radiological results with a mobile-bearing (Ceragyr) and a fixed-bearing knee prosthesis (posterior stabilized Hermes).

[Descriptive analysis of C-Reactive values after uncomplicated total hip and knee arthroplasty].

Serum C-Reactive Protein was measured serially in 45 patients treated with uncomplicated primary total hip and knee arthroplasty (24 THR y 21 TKR). Blood specimens were obtained before surgery, on surgery day and on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 13th, 42nd and 150th postoperative days. In both groups serum CRP levels increased rapidly after surgery, with maximum levels on second postoperative day, higher in the TKR group and decreased gradually to preoperative levels on day 150, but still high on 42nd day.

Ossifying fibroma of long bones in adults: a case report.

Ossifying fibroma (osteofibrous dysplasia) is a rare fibro-osseous lesion made up of fibrous tissue with woven bone formation. It is most commonly found in the tibia and fibula of children ten years of age or younger. The most important differential diagnosis is monostotic fibrous dysplasia, which is radiologically similar but without woven bone rimmed by active osteoblasts like ossifying fibroma on histological examination.