Comparative risk of ulnar nerve injury in pediatric supracondylar humeral fractures: a multicenter evaluation of Kirschner wire fixation techniques.

Purpose: This multicenter, retrospective cohort study aimed to compare the risk of ulnar nerve injury in pediatric supracondylar humeral fractures treated with percutaneous lateral-pins, blinded-crossed-pins, and crossed-pins with a mini-incision.

Methods: Data were collected from 1705 children treated between January 2010 and December 2023 at four orthopedic centers in Colombia. The incidence of postoperative ulnar nerve injury was compared among three fixation techniques: lateral-pin, blinded-crossed-pin, and crossed-pin with a mini-incision.

Distribution of fractured bones among children: Experience with the Comprehensive Pediatric AO classification in a children's orthopedic hospital in Bogotá-Colombia.

Introduction: Fractures in children and adolescents are a public health issue. However, reliable epidemiological descriptions of the South American population must be improved. This study aims to present epidemiological data on fractures from a children's orthopedic hospital in one of the five largest cities in Latin America.

Terminal nerve entry points' locations to muscles of the thigh for selective peripheral neurectomy in the adult population: a cadaveric study.

Purpose: Spasticity is the result of a variety of lesions to the central nervous system and one of the most common causes of disability worldwide. Selective peripheral neurectomy (SPN) is a surgical procedure that permanently decreases focal spasticity. The authors' objective is to provide recommendations, in terms of probabilities, for locating terminal motor entry points to muscles of the thigh, as alternatives for proximal incision sites to SPN.

Casting Without Reduction Versus Closed Reduction With or Without Fixation in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures in Children: Protocol for a Randomized Noninferiority Trial.

Background: Acute treatment for distal radius fractures, the most frequent fractures in the pediatric population, represents a challenge to the orthopedic surgeon. Deciding on surgical restoration of the alignment or cast immobilization without reducing the fracture is a complex concern given the remodeling potential of bones in children. In addition, the lack of evidence-based safe boundaries of shortening and angulation, that will not jeopardize upper-extremity functionality in the future, further complicates this decision.

Measurement properties of the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire in subjects with neurophysiological confirmation of carpal tunnel syndrome: a Rasch analysis perspective.

Purpose: To perform a comprehensive psychometric analysis of the Boston Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Questionnaire (BCTQ) by means of factor and Rasch analyses in subjects with neurophysiologic confirmation of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Relationship between clinical severity assessed with the log-linear version of the BCTQ and neurophysiologic severity assessed with nerve conduction studies was further examined.

Methods: Five hundred and twenty-eight individuals completed the questionnaire.

Reliability of home-based, motor function measure in hereditary neuromuscular diseases.

Objective To evaluate the reliability of the motor function measure (MFM) scale in the assessment of disease severity and progression when administered at home and clinic and assess its correlation with the Paediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument (PODCI). Methods In this prospective study, two assessors rated children with hereditary neuromuscular diseases (HNMDs) using the MFM at the clinic and then 2 weeks later at the patients' home. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated for the reliability of the MFM and its domains.

[Validating and standardizing children's box and block test normal values].

Objective: Evaluating gross motor skills forms part of a child's functional examination. The box and block test is a simple, useful method for evaluating upper limb functionality. This study was aimed at validating and standardising the test's normal values in 6 to 11 year-old Colombian children.

Changes in electromyographic results of patients with lumbar radiculopathy: a follow-up study.

Objective: To assess the neurophysiologic changes in a group of patients with lumbar radiculopathy 5 to 12 months after their first electromyographic examination.

Design: A prospective group of patients with a case definition of lumbar radiculopathy was reassessed between 5 and 12 months after their first clinical, functional, imaging, and neurophysiologic evaluation. Both the lumbar paraspinals (in which the mini-mapping technique was used) and the same lower limb muscles were explored in every patient.

Factor analysis of carpal tunnel syndrome questionnaire in relation to nerve conduction studies.

Objective: This study aims to assess the Boston Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Questionnaire (BCTQ) structure and its relation to nerve conduction studies (NCS).

Methods: A total of 403 patients with clinical and/or electrophysiological definition of CTS were evaluated with the instrument. The structure of the questionnaire was assessed by means of factor analysis.