Comparison of Trunk Motion between Moderate AIS and Healthy Children.

Analysis of kinematic and postural data of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients seems relevant for a better understanding of biomechanical aspects involved in AIS and its etiopathogenesis. The present project aimed at investigating kinematic differences and asymmetries in early AIS in a static task and in uniplanar trunk movements (rotations, lateral bending, and forward bending). Trunk kinematics and posture were assessed using a 3D motion analysis system and a force plate.

Overweight and obesity by school socioeconomic composition and adolescent socioeconomic status: a school-based study.

Background: The main objective of this study was to investigate the interaction effect of school socioeconomic composition (SEC) and adolescent socioeconomic status (SES) in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among a representative sample of French adolescents of the third most populous département of France.

Methods: 1038 adolescents agreed to participate (response rate: 91.4%).

Functional impact of osteosuture in medial bilateral clavicular physeal fracture in teenagers.

Introduction: Proximal physeal fracture of the medial clavicular physis is a rare specific injury occurring in the immature skeletal. Several studies describe unilateral cases with posterior or anterior displacement and the following complications (vascular and mediastinal compression). An immediate diagnosis and management are necessary to avoid complications.

Modification of knee flexion during walking with use of a real-time personalized avatar.

Visual feedback is used in different research areas, including clinical science and neuroscience. In this study, we investigated the influence of the visualization of a real-time personalized avatar on gait parameters, focusing on knee flexion during the swing phase. We also studied the impact of the modification of avatar's knee amplitude on kinematic of the knee of healthy subjects.

'What sport do you prefer to do?' Improving knowledge of adolescents' preferred sports within the sport participation decline framework.

Background: Sport participation is declining in some European countries. Previous findings recommended considering territorial specificities to adapt local sports promotion programs. However, in France, little is known about adolescents' preferences and their changes across time.

Sport injury prevalence and risk by level of play and sports played among a representative population of French adolescents. A school-based study.

Background: Sports practice has both benefits and physical risks. In France, data related to adolescent sports injury are rare. The main purpose of this article is to study the prevalence and risk of injuries by level of play and sports in the southeast of France.

Pediatric navicular dorsal osteochondroma: a rare case of navicular-cuneiform impingement.

Osteochondroma is one of the most common benign bone tumors; however, as it rarely affects any bones in feet, it may easily escape detection without rigorous examination. We present an exceptionally rare case of tarsal navicular dorsal osteochondroma diagnosed in an 11-year-old female child affected by chronic foot pain. Radiographs, MRI, and computed tomography scan revealed bony excrescences extending outward from the navicular bone.

Temporal Trends in Sports Participation among Adolescents between 2001 and 2015: A French School- and Territory-Based Study.

Improving adolescents’ levels of sport and physical activity (PA) is an official public health issue. French national government plans were launched in 2001, 2006, and 2011 to improve the participation levels of citizens. These plans should be monitored.

From which level of competition in clubs are adolescents at greater risk of injury compared with outside-of-clubs athletes? A school-based study.

Objectives: Sport practice is a key factor in a person's physical and mental health but, for adolescent athletes, some injuries lead to health problems in the long term. The literature provides multiple factors for understanding injury but does not give information about injury risk related to each level of play in a large sample of multisport athletes. This study investigates this relationship in 14- to 19-year-old adolescents.

Osteochondrosis of the medial malleolar epiphysis: A case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Osteochondrosis is characterized by a disturbance of enchondral ossification in skeletally immature patients and should be investigated in children having a history of persistent foot and ankle pain. Involvement of the medial malleolar epiphysis is rarely reported.

Presentation Of Case: We describe the case of a sporty 12-year-old male with osteochondrosis of the left medial malleolar epiphysis treated with a conservative management.

Early outcomes of spinal growth tethering for idiopathic scoliosis with a novel device: a prospective study with 2 years of follow-up.

Questions/purposes: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is a 3D spine deformity that worsens during the whole growth. New methods for spinal growth modulation with flexible spinal implants have been described to avoid progression of the deformity during growth spurt. The main limitations are that no specific ancillaries and devices are available, which makes the surgery technically demanding.

Efficacy of nighttime brace in preventing progression of idiopathic scoliosis of less than 25°.

Introduction: The objective of the present study was to assess, at skeletal maturity, the efficacy of non-operative treatment by isolated nighttime brace in the prevention of progression of progressive idiopathic scoliosis of less than 25°.

Hypothesis: Isolated nighttime brace treatment is effective in the prevention of progression of mild progressive idiopathic scoliosis (Cobb<25°).

Material And Methods: A single-center retrospective study included 142 patients managed by nighttime brace for progressive idiopathic scoliosis with Cobb angle<25°, with assessment at skeletal maturity.

[Pitfalls in the diagnosis of occult elbow fractures in children].

Elbow injuries are frequent but occult fractures are difficult to diagnose on x-rays. However, any delay in the diagnosis may severely impair the prognosis of some fractures. Simple tips may help the clinician read x-rays properly and avoid the classical pitfalls of elbow injuries in children.

Osteochondral alteration in a child treated with levetiracetam: a rare case of juvenile osteochondritis dissecans of the talar head.

Levetiracetam is a relatively novel antiepileptic drug used for the treatment of partial and generalized seizures in adult and children. Several animal studies describe a possible drug adverse effect on skeletal growth and metabolism. We present a case report of a 10-year-old female child who underwent a prolonged 7-year treatment with levetiracetam for sporadic secondary convulsions secondary to enterovirus encephalitis at the age of 15 months.

Amputation and prosthesis fitting in paediatric patients.

Amputation of a limb is always perceived as a catastrophe. The principles underlying creation of a stump adapted to modern prosthetic fittings must be fully understood and the patient managed by a multidisciplinary team. In paediatric patients, preserving residual limb length is a crucial point that should be assessed according to the expected growth potential.

A thoracic spinal bone giant cell tumor in a skeletally immature girl. A case report and literature review.

Purpose: Giant cell tumors (GCT) are benign primary bone tumors, locally aggressive, affecting in long bones in young adults during the third decade. It is rare to experience this lesion in skeletally immature patients. GCT are related to a risk of local recurrence and malignant transformation.

A New Paradigm for the Management of Thoracolumbar Pediatric Spine Traumas.

Objectives: The transient breath holding sign (TBHS) is a clinical sign often associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) spine traumatic lesions. The aims of this study were to prospectively evaluate the TBHS in the detection of thoracolumbar lesions in a large cohort of children and to establish a comprehensive strategy on the use of MRI in spine traumas in children.

Study Design: All conscious 5- to 16-year-old patients admitted for a spine trauma in our institution were prospectively included in the study.

Vertebroplasty for vertebral hemangioma in children: a report of two cases with 2-year follow-up.

Purpose: To describe two cases of a dorsal vertebral hemangioma diagnosed in a 12- and 14-year-old child successfully treated with vertebroplasty.

Method: Cases reports.

Results: Two cases of aggressive vertebral hemangiomas were diagnosed and treated in two independent institutions.

Growth tethering devices for idiopathic scoliosis.

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is a 3D spine deformity that worsens during the whole growth. The treatments available are bracing during the whole growth to avoid progression of the deformity and surgical fusion of the spine at skeletal maturity for the most severe curves. Recent advances in flexible spinal implants have given rise to new expectations in the management of progressive scoliosis with growth modulation without fusion.

[Pediatric management by mobile intensive care units in the northern French Alps emergency network].

Introduction: The northern French Alps emergency network (RENAU) manages emergent care and patient treatment pathways in a three-county area in the French Alps. The aim of the study was to describe the pediatric activity in mobile intensive care units (MICUs).

Method: This retrospective observational study was conducted from 1 January to 31 December 2012.