Bone fracture healing involves complex physiological processes that require biological events are well coordinated. In recent decades, the process of has been upheld through various treatments, including bone implants and bio-adhesive utilization. Bio-adhesion can be interpreted as in which synthetic or natural materials adhere to body surfaces. Bio-based adhesives have superiority many value-a...

What are the most common arthroscopic surgeries performed in orthopedics? According to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the knee and shoulder are by far the most common joints that require arthroscopic surgery, although the hip is increasingly becoming another location for surgery. More than 4 million knee and 1.6 million shoulder procedures are performed worldwide each yea...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), as deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary thromboembolism is a major clinical complication of orthopedic surgeries in adult population. To answer the question of how often and in what circumstances the surgeon should be worried about it in pediatric patients; the current paper reviewed the recent publications on the matter. It seems that the incidence of VTE increased a...

LEONARD F. PELTIER, MD, Orthopedics: a history and iconography, Norman Orthopedic Series No. 3, Norman Surgery Series No. 6, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1993, pp. xxvi, 305, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-47-1). This companion volume to Fractures: a historv and iconography oftreatment, by the same author and publisher, is equally well researched and produced. In addition to 332 illustrations o...

Orthopedics was launched 38 years ago with H. Andrew Wissinger at the helm. In his first editorial, Dr Wissinger wrote, “Orthopedics will offer to its readers quality articles dealing with practical orthopedics. Our intent is to present a maximum amount of practical information in a minimum amount of space. The result will be useful information without loss of time for our readers.”1 That origi...

Chief of Spine Surgery and Orthopedic Casualties, Alrazi Hospital; Chairman of Faculty Orthopedics and Post Graduate Training, Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS), Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Canadian Board Certified, P.O. Box 1160, Surra 45712, Kuwait *Corresponding author Abdulrazzaq Alobaid, MD, FRCSC Chief of Spine Surgery and Orthopedic Casualties Alrazi Hospital; Chairman of ...

S CASE REPORT Synchronous subacromial and subdeltoid bursal abscess and pyomyositis of rotator cuff muscles caused by Viridans Streptococcus Sheng-Min Lan∗,§, Cheng-Li Lin∗ , ChienKuo Wang†, Sheng-Pin Lo‡, I-Ming Jou∗ & Wei-Ren Su∗ ∗Department of Orthopedics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan †Department of Radiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan...

About the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on practice Orthopedics and Traumatology

1Coxa, Hospital for Joint Replacement, Tampere; 2Geriatric Unit, Seinäjoki Central Hospital, Seinäjoki, Finland; 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen; 4Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway; 5Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 6Department of Orthopedics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, ...