Forefoot adduction is a common condition between metatarsus adductus, Z-shaped foot and residual clubfoot. This deformity is located in a pure transverse plane at Lisfranc’s joint. Isolated metatarsus adductus is corrected spontaneously for the majority of newborns. In rare uncorrected cases, it could result in Z-shaped foot with a functional hindfoot valgus to equilibrate the resistant metatar...

Patellofemoral instability is a common cause of anterior knee pain, especially in younger and more active patients. Treatment of instability varies considerably depending on the patient's symptoms as well as the cause of the instability. Lateral instability has a particularly broad spectrum of treatment algorithms including patellar taping, arthroscopy, lateral release, medial patellofemoral li...

BACKGROUND We describe a procedure for diagnosis and planning for orthognathic surgery based on international standards. A special 2D planning based on lateral cephalograms (Axis Orbital Marker Lines System) realize a transmission to the SAM 2P articulator (3D) by means of the Axis Orbital Plane. METHODS Former intraoperative measurement of the average height of the LeFort I osteotomy plane r...

Our aim in this retrospective study of 52 children with spastic hemiplegia was to determine the factors which affected the amount of residual pelvic rotation after single-event multilevel surgery. The patients were divided into two groups, those who had undergone femoral derotation osteotomy and those who had not. Pelvic rotation improved significantly after surgery in the femoral osteotomy gro...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this anatomical study was to determine if a needle is able to reach the lateral pterygoid muscle during the application of dry needling technique. METHODS A dry needling approach using 2 needles of 50 to 60 mm in length, one inserted over the zygomatic process posterior at the obituary arch (for the superior head) and other inserted below the zygomatic process between the...

Shoulder internal rotation contracture is the most common deformity affecting the shoulder in patients with Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy. With progression of the deformity, the glenohumeral joint starts to subluxate and then dislocates. This is accompanied with bony changes of both the humerus and the glenoid. Two opposite direction humeral osteotomies have been proposed for this condition (...

STUDY DESIGN A new surgical technique of cervical osteotomy to correct an extension deformity of the cervical spine is described, and a case is reported. OBJECTIVES To emphasize the disparate effect of osteotomy level on sagittal balance and gaze angle in surgical correction of global kyphotic deformity, and to describe a new surgical technique. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Previous reports o...

Background: Blount disease is frequently associated with deformities that may not be adequately corrected by a single metaphyseal osteotomy. This study evaluated the outcome of a combined metaphyseal and epiphyseal osteotomy in severe cases. Methods: We prospectively evaluated the outcome of combining the antero-posterior inverted-U metaphyseal osteotomy with a medial open-wedge hemi-epiphyseal...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether migration occurs at individual osteotomy sites following sagittal split osteotomy of the mandible stabilized with rigid internal fixation, and if it occurs, how long it lasts. In 10 consecutive patients operated with bilateral sagittal split osteotomies, postoperative migration, defined as displacement of the proximal segments in relation to ...