Bigger is not necessarily better - 2-ring circular frames associated with shorter duration of treatment in the management of complex tibial fractures - a retrospective cohort study.

Frame configuration for the management of complex tibial fractures is highly variable and is dependent upon both fracture pattern and surgeon preference. The optimal number of rings to use when designing a frame remains uncertain. Traditionally larger, multi-ring-per-segment constructs have been assumed to offer optimal stability and therefore favourable conditions for fracture healing but there is little in-vivo evidence for this and the recent concept of reverse dynamisation challenges this approach.

Chemotaxonomy of Southeast Asian (Piperaceae) Using High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography Colour Scale Fingerprint Imaging and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry.

The morphological characters of Southeast Asia's indigenous species are very similar, especially in their flower structures. The flowers are simple, hermaphrodite and lack a perianth. Therefore, many species are hard to distinguish using morphological characters alone.

Return to sport following toe phalanx fractures: A systematic review.

Background: Evidence-based guidance on return to sport following toe phalanx fractures is limited.

Aim: To systemically review all studies recording return to sport following toe phalanx fractures (both acute fractures and stress fractures), and to collate information on return rates to sport (RRS) and mean return times (RTS) to the sport.

Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, and Google Scholar was performed in December 2022 using the keywords 'Toe', 'Phalanx', 'Fracture', 'injury', 'athletes', 'sports', 'non-operative', 'conservative', 'operative', 'return to sport'.

Assessment of Morphological, Anatomical and Palynological Variation in the Medicinal Plant Craib (Asparagaceae) for Botanical Quality Control.

Craib is an Asian medicinal plant belonging to the Asparagaceae family. The plants are well known for their steroidal saponins and phenolic compounds and are traditionally used as tonics for back pain, bellyache, cough, diabetes, asthma, pneumonia and rheumatism. However, they are challenging to identify to species level using morphology.