Diversity of Trauma and Orthopaedic Trainees and Workplace Culture of Orthopaedic Training in the United Kingdom: Insights From the 2022 British Orthopaedic Trainee Association (BOTA) Census.

The British Orthopaedic Trainee Association (BOTA) conducted its latest census in 2022 of its membership. The results of wellbeing, diversity, equity, inclusion and bullying are discussed here. This highlighted several key focuses for improvement.

Medial Soft-Tissue Release for Lateralising Calcaneal Osteotomy: A Cadaveric Study.

Background: Lateralising calcaneal osteotomy for pes cavus is generally regarded to be harder to shift than a medialising calcaneal osteotomy for pes planus. The aim of our study was to determine the structures which restrain a lateral shift.

Methods: Lateralising calcaneal osteotomy was performed on four soft-embalmed cadavers via a standard lateral approach and the lateral calcaneal shift was measured before and after the release of flexor retinaculum.

Bilateral Spontaneous Midsubstance Patellar Tendon Rupture after Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty.

Introduction: Patellar tendon rupture can occur due to multiple causes ranging from inflammatory pathologies to episodes of trauma. Extensor mechanism rupture is a rare complication of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In most of these cases, the failure occurs as avulsion of patellar tendon from tibial tuberosity.

It's not what it looks like: challenges in diagnosis of synovial lesions of the knee joint.

Background: With the advent of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), Synovial lesions around knee are being more and more easily detected. Synovial lesions of knee present with boggy swelling, effusion, pain, and restriction of motion. Differential diagnoses of such lesions include pigmented villonodular synovitis, synovial lipoma, synovial chondromatosis, rheumatoid arthritis, synovial hemangioma, amyloid arthropathy, xanthomata and lipoma arborescens.

Use of Ilizarov Fixator for Grade III B Open Olecranon Fracture: a Case Report and Surgical Technique.

Introduction: External fixator application can be difficult for olecranon fractures in presence of large degloving injuries. We describe use of simple Ilizarov ring fixator construct for grade IIIB open olecranon fracture management.

Case Report: A 45-year-old female with Grade III B open comminuted olecranon fracture (30*15cm degloving area) and ulnar nerve palsy was treated with a novel ring fixator construct.