Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Jul 2020
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyEarly mobilization versus plaster immobilization of simple elbow dislocations: a cost analysis of the FuncSiE multicenter randomized clinical trial.
The primary aim was to assess and compare the total costs (direct health care costs and indirect costs due to loss of production) after early mobilization versus plaster immobilization in patients with a simple elbow dislocation. It was hypothesized that early mobilization would not lead to higher direct and indirect costs. ⋯ From a clinical and a socio-economic point of view, early mobilization should be the treatment of choice for a simple elbow dislocation. Plaster immobilization has inferior results at almost double the cost.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Jul 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialImmediate effects of an elastic patellar brace on pain, neuromuscular activity and knee kinematics in subjects with patellofemoral pain.
The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate immediate effects of a patellar brace on pain, neuromuscular activity, and knee kinematics in subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome. ⋯ Patellofemoral bracing results in an immediate decrease of pain, an earlier onset of vastus medialis and inverted vastus medialis/vastus lateralis ratio and altered knee kinematics.