The surgical procedures for and outcomes of soft tissue constraint reconstruction in complex elbow instability have been rarely investigated. The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical outcomes in a series of patients with complex elbow instability in whom the associated soft tissue constraint injures were identified and treated based on the pathoanatomic changes found intraoperative...

Complex elbow instability consists of dislocation of the ulnohumeral joint with a concomitant fracture of one or several of the bony stabilizers of the elbow, including the radial head, proximal ulna, coronoid process, or distal humerus. Recurrent instability is not often associated with simple dislocation, but an improperly managed complex dislocation may be a prelude to chronic, recurrent elb...

This is a retrospective analysis of the clinical and radiological outcome in 24 patients with acute or chronic posttraumatic elbow instability, who were treated with open reduction, internal fixation and a hinged external fixator. The instability was acute after elbow fracture dislocation in 11 cases; the other 13 had chronic posttraumatic instability of the elbow. Concentric stability and a su...

BACKGROUND Pitching is a common mechanism of injury in baseball, with known risk factors for elbow injuries among adolescent pitchers. HYPOTHESIS Elbow injury rates and mechanisms will differ between high school baseball and softball players. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology study. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 3. METHODS Baseball- and softball-related injury data from the 2005-2006 thro...

UNLABELLED The floating elbow is an uncommon injury occurring both in children and in adults. Two reports of rare variants of floating elbow injury have been published, but to the best of our knowledge, no recurrence of this injury has been described. We present a complex pattern of floating injury, occurring in the same limb 3 years after a floating elbow lesion, which included supracondylar f...

INTRODUCTION Elbow dislocations in children are uncommon injuries. Dislocations with associated fractures or so-called complex dislocations of the elbow can be challenging to diagnose and treat. CASE PRESENTATION A 14-year-old male had a posterolateral elbow dislocation after a fall. Closed reduction with traction was performed. Radiographs after initial reduction showed a fragment entrapped ...

BACKGROUND Many risk factors for throwing injuries have been proposed. However, little is known about the risk factors for elbow injuries, particularly on physeal injuries in youth baseball players without prior elbow pain. PURPOSE To investigate the risk factors for elbow injuries with a focus on physeal injuries that could predispose youth baseball players without elbow pain to elbow injuri...

Elbow injuries are common in sports that involve throwing, overhead activity, and upper extremity weight-bearing, including baseball, volleyball, football, javelin throwing, and gymnastics. Although acute injuries of the elbow are somewhat common in pediatric patients, overuse injuries in youth athletes are very prevalent. Elbow pain in baseball players aged 9 to 12 years has been found to rang...

background: this study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no expansion of heterotopic ossification (ho) in the elbow beyond what can be seen early on.   methods: the area of ho was measured on lateral radiographs of 38 consecutive patients that had operative treatment of ho between 2000 and 2013. measurements from radiographs obtained between 3 to 7 weeks were compared to measurements ...