S. E. Farmer, MSc, MCSP, Superintendent Physiotherapist P. J. Woollam, IEng, MIIE, Rehabilitation Engineer J. H. Patrick, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Medical Director A. P. Roberts, DM, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon W. Bromwich, BSc, MCSP, Physiotherapist Orthotic Research and Locomotor Assessment Unit (ORLAU), Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NH...

fluids of rheumatoid arthritis patients Ishikawa, M; +Ito; H, Akiyoshi, M; Murata,K; Tanida, S; Yoshitomi, H; Kume,N, Sawarura, T Nakamura, T +Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan +Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan +Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto, Japan +Department of Vascular Physiology, National Card...

Gurhan Erturan,1 Harriet Holme,2 Anna Cassoni,2 Roberto Tirabosco,3 Rob Pollock,4 Tim Briggs,4 Maria Michelagnoli2 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford; 2The London Sarcoma Service, University College London Hospital, London; 3Department of Pathology, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore; 4The London Sarco...

Makoto Kobayashi, M.D., Yohei Kawakami, M.D., Ph.D., Satoshi Tateda, M.D., Shusuke Ota, MD,PhD, Takanobu Otsuka, MD,PhD, Freddie H. Fu, MD, Johnny Huard, Ph.D.. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya City Univ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova and Hospital 9 de Octubre, Valencia, Spain McConnell Physiotherapy Group, Centre for Sports Medicine Research and Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Department of Orthopaedic Surger...

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Growth hormone (GH) therapy is widely used in children; it may have various severe orthopaedic complications. Slipped capital femoral epiphysis, Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, scoliosis and carpal tunnel syndrome may occur with GH treatment. Before beginning GH therapy, it is important to take into account all the risk factors of the individual patient, as some conditions could contraindicate GH t...

Clinical registries have become a normality in virtually all fields of medicine. Orthopaedics has many ways led this development with early knee and hip arthroplasties. The South African Orthopaedic Registry (SAOR) is an ambitious undertaking to register orthopaedic procedures performed Africa will provide valuable data for quality assessment, teaching allocation resources.1

Need The need for both elective and emergency orthopaedic services in developing countries is great. Most of the degenerative musculoskeletal diseases seen in the West are prevalent, as well as conditions such as untreated club foot, gross genu varum and valgus, tuberculosis of the spine and severe chronic osteomyelitis. Road traffic accidents are becoming an epidemic. More than 80% of deaths i...

OBJECTIVES Guidelines for the management of patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) have been available to the orthopaedic community for more than a decade, with little improvement in service provision to this increasingly large patient group. Improvements in adjuvant and neo-adjuvant treatments have increased both the number and overall survival of patients living with MBD. As a consequenc...