Risk factors associated with failure of treatment of humeral diaphyseal fractures after functional bracing.

Objectives: To assess humeral shaft nonunions after functional bracing and to identify any risk factors contributing to this outcome.

Materials And Methods: Seven men and 12 women were retrospectively studied that had been treated for at least three months in a functional brace and had developed a clinical and radiographic nonunion. Patients' charts and radiographs were reviewed to evaluate fracture patterns, mechanisms of injury, associated health problems, and associated injuries.

Carpal tunnel syndrome: using self-report measures of disease to predict treatment response.

Initial self-report assessments of symptom severity in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome was retrospectively examined. At initial evaluation, 86 patients completed a self-administered questionnaire previously shown to be reproducible, internally consistent, and responsive to clinical change. Within the next 2 years, 50 patients underwent carpal tunnel release; of the other 36 patients, 23 were managed adequately with conservative treatment alone, and 13 were lost to follow-up.

Simultaneous fractures of the capitate and hamate in the coronal plane: case report.

Fractures of the carpal bones in the coronal plane are encountered rarely and their diagnosis usually is delayed. Coronal hamate fractures are relatively well described but a coronal capitate fracture occurring simultaneously with a coronal hamate fracture is extremely rare. We describe such an injury addressed with fixation of the hamate alone.