Mental practice maintains range of motion despite forearm immobilization: a pilot study in healthy persons.

Objective: To determine whether mental practice of wrist movements during forearm immobilization maintains range of motion.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Participants: Eighteen healthy young men aged between 20 and 30 years were assigned to either a control or a mental practice group.

[Mental practice has influence on limitation of motion and muscle atrophy following immobilisation of the radiocarpal joint - a prospective randomised experimental study].

Purpose: Distal radial fracture is the most common bony injury in man. Still there are unsatisfying treatment results, such as limited joint movement, muscle atrophy and pain, resulting from immobilisation while the fracture is healing. During this period, also joint movement seems to be "forgotten".

[Endovascular treatment of traumatic ruptures of the thoracic aorta].

Traumatic rupture of the descending aorta is an acute life-threatening event. The most common cause is deceleration trauma resulting in a sudden stretching of the aortic isthmus as for example in car and motorcycle accidents and falls from a great height. Exemplified by a case report of a multiply injured 57-year-old male the diagnostic pathways, therapy and postoperative complications are presented.

Can the displacement of a conservatively treated distal radius fracture be predicted at the beginning of treatment?

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the final displacement of conservatively treated distal radius fractures can be predicted after primary reduction. We analysed the radiographic documents of 311 patients with a conservatively treated distal radius fracture at the time of injury, after reduction and after bony consolidation. We measured the dorsal angulation (DA), the radial angle (RA) and the radial shortening (RS) at each time point.

[Lower limb salvage using Pirogoff ankle arthrodesis : minimally invasive and effective fixation with the Ilizarov external ring fixator].

Background: Irreversible destruction of the forefoot and midfoot generally leads to amputation. So-called limited surgical procedures such as transmetatarsal or Chopart/Syme amputations often result in poor clinical outcomes. Prostheses for these stumps are difficult to fit, a fact that reduces mobility for these patients, so reamputations are not rare.