Public Insurance and Language Preferences Are Associated With a Longer Time to Surgery for Distal Radius Fractures.

Introduction: Insurance type can result in disparities in access to specialist orthopaedic care. Here, we sought to quantify how insurance type affects time to surgery in patients with a distal radius fracture that needs surgical treatment.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients ≥18 years with surgically managed, closed distal radius fractures was conducted.

Differential fracture response to traumatic brain injury suggests dominance of neuroinflammatory response in polytrauma.

Polytraumatic injuries, specifically long bone fracture and traumatic brain injury (TBI), frequently occur together. Clinical observation has long held that TBI can accelerate fracture healing, yet the complexity and heterogeneity of these injuries has produced conflicting data with limited information on underlying mechanisms. We developed a murine polytrauma model with TBI and fracture to evaluate healing in a controlled system.

Stimulating Fracture Healing in Ischemic Environments: Does Oxygen Direct Stem Cell Fate during Fracture Healing?

Bone fractures represent an enormous societal and economic burden as one of the most prevalent causes of disability worldwide. Each year, nearly 15 million people are affected by fractures in the United States alone. Data indicate that the blood supply is critical for fracture healing; as data indicate that concomitant bone and vascular injury are major risk factors for non-union.