Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of micro-locking plate through vertical or parallel technique for treatment Dubberley B-type capitellar fractures. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed in 24 patients (17 males and seven females, with an average age 44.9 years, range from 19 to 75 years) fractures that were treated using between January 2016 2019. The inclusion criteria incl...

Continuous passive motion (CPM) is an orthopedic treatment or a physiotherapy and is tried to apply after surgery for the injured radial collateral ligament (RCL) in the elbow joint. After the surgery, the reaction force at hand of the patient increases due to an increase of the joint stiffness and may be excessively large. For this, it is effective to reduce the excessive reaction force by con...

CONTEXT Although baseball is a relatively safe sport, numerous reports suggest a rapid rise in elbow injury rate among youth baseball pitchers. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION PUBMED WAS SEARCHED FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC, BIOMECHANICAL, AND CLINICAL STUDIES OF ELBOW INJURIES IN BASEBALL (KEYWORDS: "youth OR adolescent" AND baseball AND pitching AND "ulnar collateral ligament OR elbow"; published January 2000 -...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence of revision and potential risk factors for needing revision surgery following in situ ulnar nerve decompression for patients with idiopathic cubital tunnel syndrome (CTS). METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review of all patients treated at 1 specialty hand center with an open in situ ulnar nerve decompression for idiopathic CTS from January 2006 thr...

Thirty-two rheumatoid elbow joints in 25 patients which had undergone synovectomy and excision of the radial head have been studied from the point of view of pattern of joint involvement and the efficacy of surgery. In this group of patients there was a significant trend towards affection of proximal joints occurring earlier in the course of the disease than distal joints. There was a high inci...

After dislocation of the elbow with avulsion of the medial epicondyle, the management of the latter is controversial. Of 28 children followed up after initial closed reduction of the elbow, 19 had a satisfactory closed reduction of the epicondyle and were treated in plaster. At follow-up, 11 children had a normal elbow and eight had lost an average of 15 degrees of flexion. Nine children had ha...

A review is presented of 41 patients with traumatic tetraplegia on whom reconstructive surgery of the upper limb was carried out. Twelve patients were followed up for more than 10 years after operation and the average period overall was seven and a half years. Tendon transfers were made with the aim of providing extension of the elbow or restoring a useful grasp or a combination of both. The as...

OBJECTIVE To establish whether severe obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) can be identified reliably at or before three months of age. METHODS Severe OBPP was defined as neurotmesis or avulsion of spinal nerves C5 and C6 irrespective of additional C7-T1 lesions, assessed during surgery and confirmed by histopathological examination. We first prospectively studied a derivation group of 48 i...

Introduction The kinematic axes of ten embalmed elbows were determined before and after placement of the iBP elbow endoprosthesis using the iBPTM Elbow System (Biomet,Inc,Warsaw,Indiana,USA). Reconstruction of the normal kinematic axis during surgery is considered to be of importance, because a deviating axis may result in a changed movement pattern of the forearm with respect to the upper arm ...

Plate fixation of extraarticular distal humeral shaft fracture is often difficult. Traditional techniques do not allow for stable fixation. A single DCP plate may have inadequate purchase in the distal fragment. The use of large plates extending distally over the lateral supracondylar ridge is often associated with pain and sometimes interferes with elbow range of motion. In this study, 22 pati...