OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of different splitting techniques, namely, "mallet and chisel" versus "spreading and prying", used during bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) on postoperative hypoesthesia outcomes. STUDY DESIGN We systematically searched the PubMed and Cochrane databases (from January 1957 to November 2012) for studies that examined postoper...

AIM To compare outcomes of our revision surgical operations in obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) patients to results of conventional operative procedures at other institutions. METHODS We analyzed our OBPP data and identified 10 female and 10 male children aged 2.0 to 11.8 years (average age 6.5 years), who had prior conventional surgical therapies at other clinics. Of the 20 patients, 1...

Although instrument playing-based training has been repeatedly reported to improve functional hand movements including grasping, the attempts to present quantitative information on physiological mechanism of grasping have been relatively insufficient to determine the type and the intensity of the exercises involved. This study aimed to examine the muscle activation during hand percussion playin...

The Internet allows musicians and other artists to collaborate remotely. However, network latency presents a fundamental challenge for remote collaborators who need to coordinate and respond to each other’s performance in real time. In this paper, we investigate the viability of predicting percussion hits before they have occurred, so that information about the predicted drum hit can be sent ov...

Nicolas Mallet,1,2* Alek Pogosyan,2 László F. Márton,1,3 J. Paul Bolam,1 Peter Brown,2 and Peter J. Magill1* 1Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom, 2Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom, and 3Neural Systems Research Group, Sapientia– Hung...

A procedure is described for reconstruction of the oblique retinacular ligament using a small tendon graft in a spiral fashion to act as a dynamic tenodesis to restore distal interphalangeal extension and to restrain proximal interphalangeal hyperextension. The method has been uniformly successful in the treatment of post-traumatic "swan-neck" or "mallet" deformity. Although the concept is simp...