Virtual arthroplasty clinic: a single centre experience: commentary on progress, cost savings and patient retention.

Background: The COVID pandemic highlights utility of remote patient follow-up. We observe a Virtual Clinic (VC) follow-up model for arthroplasty used at a metropolitan hospital. Patients aged <70 that exhibit no issues in face-to-face review (F2F) progress to VC.

Evaluation and management of paediatric and adolescent back pain: Epidemiology, presentation, investigation, and clinical management: A narrative review.

This narrative review will summarise a clinical approach to the investigation of back pain in children and adolescent patients, including a discussion of the epidemiology, presentation, investigation and clinical management of back pain in children and adolescents. This will assist the prompt and accurate diagnosis of spinal disorders that require significant medical intervention. Existing evidence suggests a relatively high incidence of non-specific back pain among young people; 27-48% of presentations of back pain in children and adolescents are attributed to non-specific back pain.

Coronal plane knee moments improve after correcting external tibial torsion in patients with cerebral palsy.

Background: External tibial torsion causes an abnormal axis of joint motion relative to the line of progression with resultant abnormal coronal plane knee moments and affects lever arm function of the foot in power generation at the ankle. However, it is unclear whether surgical correction of the tibial torsion corrects the moments and power.

Questions/purposes: We evaluated whether surgical correction of external tibial torsion in patients with cerebral palsy would correct the abnormal coronal plane knee moments and improve ankle power generation.