THE CASE OF JEUNE SYNDROME AMONG THE PRECARPATHIAN POPULATION.

Despite the fact that Jeune syndrome is rather rare, neonatologists and pediatricians need to be aware of this pathology. This will facilitate early diagnostics of the condition and aid in the choice of the most adequate algorithms for its monitoring and treatment. The aim: To describe the case of Jeune syndrome among the Precarpathian population.

Technical issues in using robots to reproduce joint specific gait.

Reproduction of the in vivo motions of joints has become possible with improvements in robot technology and in vivo measuring techniques. A motion analysis system has been used to measure the motions of the tibia and femur of the ovine stifle joint during normal gait. These in vivo motions are then reproduced with a parallel robot.

Asynchronous muscle and tendon adaptation after surgical tensioning procedures.

Background: Donor muscles are often highly stretched in tendon transfer surgery. Despite literature reports that showed adaptation of the serial sarcomere number to moderate stretch, little is known regarding adaptation to stretch outside of the physiological range (commonly seen in clinical tendon transfer). This study was performed to evaluate muscle-tendon-unit adaptation to tendon transfer surgery in an animal model.

ACL/MCL transection affects knee ligament insertion distance of healing and intact ligaments during gait in the Ovine model.

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of combined transection of the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments on the intact and healing ligaments in the ovine stifle joint. In vivo 3D stifle joint kinematics were measured in eight sheep during treadmill walking (accuracy: 0.4+/-0.

Healing ligament mechanical properties are improved by repair with interpositional allografts but not by concomitant treatment with hyaluronic acid.

Healing ligaments have inferior mechanical properties compared to normal ligaments during early healing intervals. The purpose of this study was to investigate if in vivo ligament repair with an interpositional allograft and treatment with hyaluronic acid (HA) would improve the mechanical properties of a medial collateral ligament (MCL) healing from a gap injury. Twenty rabbits were assigned equally to either a donor or recipient group.