©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B5. 16021 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:608-17. The management of skeletal metastatic disease has attracted increasing attention during the past decade. In orthopaedic practice there is an increased demand for reconstructive surgery for both pathological fractures and in the management of paraplegia from ...

Currently there is no specific treatment for the brain insults leading to motor dysfunction in cerebral palsy. The available symptomatic therapeutic options place cerebral palsy among the costliest chronic childhood conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to make well-informed decisions in an effort to match cost-effectiveness with patient and family needs. This presentation aims to analyze the ...

The aim of this single-dose, randomized, positive control, double-dummy, double-blind, parallel group study was to compare oral bromfenac 10 and 25 mg with sublingual buprenorphine 0.2 and 0.4 mg for treatment of postoperative pain. We studied 91 patients with moderate or severe pain after general surgical or orthopaedic operations, using pain intensity, pain relief, adverse effect, mood and se...

different methods have been evaluated for manufacturing the porous ti6al4v alloys according todecreasing stress shielding phenomenon and increasing mechanical compatibility between themetallic components and the host tissue. for this purpose, in this work ti6al4v alloy chips werepressed under 400 mpa pressure and then samples were categorized and heated into two groups at1000 and 1150℃ under a ...

Bone Joint Res 2013;2:96–101. Received 12 December 2012; Accepted after revision 11 April 2013 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 h...

  Background: Orthopaedic surgeons have a pivotal role in transitioning the care of orthopedic patients from a biomedical to a biopsychosocial model. In an effort to foster this transition, we designed a study aimed to determine surgeons’ attitudes and practice of noticing, screening, discussing psychological illness with patients, as well as making referrals to address psychosocial issues in ...

 Abstract Background: With increasing knowledge concerning fractures of the distal radius, different classifications have been proposed. Reliability of most of these classifications has been assessed. The Fernandez classification has never been assessed for intraobserver and interobserver reliability, although this classification is commonly used. Methods: Five observers including one attending...

Objective: Arthroplasty constitutes a major procedure commonly used in orthopaedic and traumatology surgery, chronic pain develops 7%–34% of patients after arthroplasty. This study aims to evaluate the experience, thoughts attitudes surgeons about postsurgical arthroplasty.
 Methods: The survey was sent via Google system. questionnaire consisted 17 questions total; four were related demogr...