BACKGROUND The reported outcomes of shoulder arthroplasty in patients under the age of fifty years are worse than those in patients over fifty. While there are several possible explanations for this finding, we explored the possibility that patients who had a primary shoulder arthroplasty when they were under fifty years of age differed from those who had the procedure when they were over fifty...

BACKGROUND Scant attention has been paid to breast capsule revision after augmentation mammaplasty. Dissatisfaction with traditional techniques prompted the senior authors to develop a thermal capsulorrhaphy (TC) technique to obliterate excess breast pocket space using ball cautery followed by barbed suture closure. OBJECTIVES The authors propose a new periprosthetic technique for pocket clos...

Rockwood described a capsulorrhaphy technique for operative treatment of multidirectional shoulder instability with anterior dislocation. We have used this technique mainly in patients with severe multidirectional instability and now have 8 years' experience with it, which is reported below. The surgical technique involves refixation of the Bankart lesion with transosseous suture and double bre...

This article focuses on the Sacred Tales (henceforth ST), Aelius Aristides’ first-person account of his terrible diseases and subsequent healing brought about by Asclepius, and sheds new light on this text with the help of the notion of embodiment. In recent decades the ST has received a great deal of attention:1 scholars have offered two main readings of this work, oscillating between the pole...

BACKGROUND The results of open and arthroscopic instability repairs have been shown to be equivalent in recent literature. PURPOSE To compare the time to recurrence (TTR) of instability and disease-specific outcome measures in patients undergoing open and arthroscopic Bankart repair. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Patients with recurrent traumatic anterior should...

We report a review of 33 hips (32 patients) which had required repeat open reduction for congenital dislocation of the hip. They were followed up for a mean of 76 months (36 to 132). Factors predisposing to failure of the initial open reduction were simultaneous femoral or pelvic osteotomy, inadequate inferior capsular release, and inadequate capsulorrhaphy. Avascular necrosis had developed in ...