Anterior tibial stress fractures treated with anterior tension band plating in high-performance athletes.

Purpose: The non-surgical treatment of anterior tibial cortex stress fractures requires long periods of abstention from sports activities and often results in non-union. Many different surgical techniques have already been previously described to treat these fractures, but there is no consensus on the best treatment. We describe the outcome of treatment using anterior tibial tension band plating in three high-performance athletes (4 legs) with anterior tibial cortex stress fractures.

THORACOLUMBAR BURST FRACTURES: CORRELATION BETWEEN KYPHOSIS AND FUNCTION POST NON-OPERATIVE TREATMENT.

Objective: To assess the correlation between kyphosis and post-traumatic symptoms in patients undergoing conservative treatment for thoracolumbar burst fractures.

Methods: A retrospective study was carried out with 36 patients meeting the inclusion criteria for this kind of fracture classified as Denis and Magerl's subtype A3 and treated with anti-gravitational casting or TLSO. The mean age of patients was 50.