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Polyetheretherketone Versus Titanium Cages for Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Meta-Analysis and Review of the Literature.

Apr 07, 2020

Lumbar fusion with implantation of interbody cage is a common procedure for treatment of lumbar degenerative disease. This study aims to compare the fusion and subsidence rates of titanium (Ti) versus...

The Influence of Mechanic Factors in Disc Degeneration Disease as a Determinant for Surgical Indication.

Apr 07, 2020

Low back pain is the most common reason for physician visit in Western population. It's one of the factors that affect health-related quality of life. Intervertebral disc degeneration is one of the le...

Increased prevalence of self-reported fractures in Asian Indians with diabetes: Results from the ICMR-INDIAB population based cross-sectional study.

Mar 23, 2020

Diabetes mellitus (DM), has been associated with increased fracture risk. However, there are no data pertaining to the prevalence of fractures for patients with DM in India. The aim of this study was ...

The Impact of the Lordosis Distribution Index on Failure after Surgical Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity.

Mar 23, 2020

Proximal junctional failure (PFJ) is a common and dreaded complication of adult spinal deformity. Previous research has identified parameters associated with the development of PJF and the search for ...

Perceptions of risk for stress fractures: A qualitative study of female runners with and without stress fracture histories.

Mar 23, 2020

To gain insight into perceived factors related to bone health and stress fracture (SF) prevention for female runners and to understand their experiences within the medical community.Cohort qualitative...

Experimental study on the mechanical properties of biological hydrogels of different concentrations.

Mar 23, 2020

Biological hydrogels provide a conducive three-dimensional extracellular matrix environment for encapsulating and cultivating living cells. Microenvironmental modulus of hydrogels dictates several cha...

Relationship between skin and urine colonization and surgical site infection in the proximal femur fracture: a prospective study.

Mar 23, 2020

Antibiotic prophylaxis is routinely used in the surgical management of proximal femur fractures. The role of bacterial colonization of the skin and urine in the development of deep surgical site infec...

Effect of Box Height on Box Jump Performance in Elite Female Handball Players.

Mar 19, 2020

Koefoed, N, Dam, S, and Kersting, UG. Effect of box height on box jump performance in elite female team handball players. J Strength Cond Res XX(X): 000-000, 2020-This study aimed at investigating whe...

Appropriate referral and selection of patients with chronic pain for Spinal Cord Stimulation: European consensus recommendations and e-health tool.

Mar 19, 2020

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment for chronic neuropathic, neuropathic-like and ischaemic pain. However, the heterogeneity of patients in daily clinical practice makes it often...

The Effect of Plasma Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Interventions on Bone Mineral Density: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Mar 13, 2020

Several epidemiological studies have reported a relationship between statin treatment and increased bone mineral density (BMD) and reduced fracture risk, but the mechanism underlying the purported rel...

Liquid nitrogen waterless fracking for the environmental protection of arid areas during unconventional resource extraction.

Mar 13, 2020

Many arid and semi-arid regions are rich in shale gas or coalbed methane. However, hydraulic-fracturing, commonly used for reservoir stimulation, has serious environmental impacts such as the consumpt...

An exemplar pyramid feature extraction based humerus fracture classification method.

Mar 13, 2020

Humerus fracture have been widely seen disease in the orthopedic clinics and classification of them is a hard process for orthopedist. The main aim of the proposed method is to classify humerus fractu...

Training Load, Neuromuscular Readiness, and Perceptual Fatigue Profile in Youth Elite Long-Jump Athletes.

Mar 13, 2020

To describe and identify individual trends and changes in training load, neuromuscular readiness, and perceptual fatigue measures in 2 youth elite long jumpers, finalists at the European Athletics U18...

Do Athlete Monitoring Tools Improve a Coach's Understanding of Performance Change?

Mar 13, 2020

To assess a coach's subjective assessment of their athletes' performances and whether the use of athlete-monitoring tools could improve on the coach's prediction to identify performance changes.Eight ...

Basic morphometry, microcomputed tomography and mechanical evaluation of the tibiotarsal bone of a dual-purpose and a broiler chicken line.

Mar 12, 2020

Continuous loading of the skeleton by the body's weight is an important factor in establishing and maintaining bone morphology, architecture and strength. However, in fast-growing chickens the appendi...

Single versus double screw fixation for the treatment of scaphoid waist fractures: Finite element analysis and preliminary clinical results in scaphoid nonunion.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to compare the single versus double screw fixation of scaphoid waist fractures using finite element analysis, and to present the preliminary clinical results of double screw fixation i...

Factors affecting re-displacement in pediatric forearm fractures and the role of cast indices.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the loss of reduction in pediatric diaphyseal forearm fractures and to compare the three-point index (TPI) with the cast index, padding index, Cant...

Orthopedic treatment, complications, and cost analysis of 67 soldiers injured in a three-month period.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to analyze the musculoskeletal injury types, injury mechanisms, treatment modalities, complications, and costs of 67 consecutive soldiers wounded in the battlefield in Syria civil war ...

Implant survival in uncemented total hip arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures: outcomes of 115 patients in a single center.

Mar 09, 2020

There remains disagreement about the use of cemented or uncemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) for patients with a displaced intracapsular femoral neck fracture (FNF). The aim of this study was to as...

The Achilles tendon Total Rupture Score is a responsive primary outcome measure: an evaluation of the Dutch version including minimally important change.

Mar 09, 2020

Aim of this study was to evaluate the responsiveness of the Dutch version of the Achilles tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS-NL).Patients (N = 47) completed the ATRS-NL at 3 and 6 months after Achi...

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