Anterior glenoid fractures associated with glenohumeral instability are normally treated with open fixation of the fragment. However, recent technical development enables this procedure to be performed under arthroscopic control using screws or even suture anchors if the fragment is small enough. We developed a unique method of stabilizing a larger fragment with suture anchors and the use of a ...

Research has shown that judgments tend to assimilate to irrelevant "anchors." We extend anchoring effects to show that anchors can even operate across modalities by, apparently, priming a general sense of magnitude that is not moored to any unit or scale. An initial study showed that participants drawing long "anchor" lines made higher numerical estimates of target lengths than did those drawin...

INTRODUCTION Arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff is a demanding surgery. Accurate placement of anchors is key to success. CASE PRESENTATION A 38-year-old woman received arthroscopic repair of her rotator cuff using a double row suture anchor technique. Postoperatively, she developed impingement syndrome which resulted from vertical displacement of a suture anchor once the shoulder was mob...

BACKGROUND Commonly performed arthroscopic rotator interval closure techniques that imbricate the rotator interval in a superior-inferior direction have been unable to reproduce the stabilizing effects of an open medial-lateral rotator interval imbrication. HYPOTHESIS The medial-lateral rotator interval closure will allow less inferior and posterior glenohumeral translation than the superior-...

A series of small-scale tests was undertaken to verify if granular anchors could be used as a slope stabilisation technique. The nature of the material used and the resulting loading configuration are described here. The work confirms that the inclusion of anchors within a slope mass, irrespective of their number or orientation, significantly enhances the capacity and ductility of the failure m...

Covalent modification of proteins with phosphatidylinositol (PI) was first suggested as a novel mechanism of membrane attachment when it was found that PI-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) could release alkaline phosphatase from tissue slices [1-5]. Subsequent compositional analysis of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) [6,7], Torpedo acetylcholinesterase [8], erythrocyte ace...

We compared the pullout strength of a suture-based anchor versus a bioabsorbable anchor in the distal fibula and calcaneus and evaluated the relationship between bone mineral density and peak load to failure. Eight paired cadaveric specimens underwent a modified Broström procedure and Achilles tendon reattachment. The fibula and calcaneus in the paired specimens received either a suture-based a...

Sensor networks play an important role to enhance indoor mobile applications. The sensor network for human detection in a house, for example, cooperates with a mobile application and automatically controls home appliances. To realize such enhancement in a vast indoor environment such as in a building, we face a sensor localization problem. We need to get location of huge number of sensor nodes ...

BACKGROUND Shoulder instability is a common condition, particularly affecting a young, active population. Open capsulolabral repair is effective in the majority of cases, however arthroscopic techniques, particularly using suture anchors, are being used with increasing success. METHODS 15 patients with shoulder instability were operated on by a single surgeon (VK) using BioKnotless anchors (D...

HYPOTHESIS Patients with type II superior labrum, anterior to posterior (SLAP) lesions will have improved function and decreased pain at a minimum of 2 years after arthroscopic SLAP repair using bioabsorbable suture anchor fixation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population consisted of 48 patients who underwent arthroscopic SLAP repair. Subjective shoulder scores, range of motion, and stren...