Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Mar 2016
Influence of preparation and football skill level on injury incidence during an amateur football tournament.
Scientific studies on injury characteristics are rather common in professional football but not in amateur football despite the thousands of amateur football tournaments taking place worldwide each year. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the preparation and injury patterns of players of two different football skill levels who participated in an international amateur football tournament. ⋯ For the first time, this study presents detailed information on the injury incidence and injury patterns of an amateur football tournament. Less-trained recreational players sustained significantly more injuries than better-trained amateur players, probably due to the lack of sufficient preparation before the tournament. Preventive strategies against overuse and traumatic injuries of recreational football players should start with regular training and warm-up programmes in preparation for a tournament.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Mar 2016
1-Year outcome of concomitant intracarpal lesions in patients with dislocated distal radial fractures: a systematic assessment of 78 distal radial fractures.
Ligamentous lesions are concomitant to dislocated distal radius fractures in a high percentage. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relevance of intracarpal lesions. ⋯ The dislocated distal radial fracture implies severe and complex injury to the whole wrist, mostly concerning intracarpal concomitant lesions (MRI). Surgical therapy of dislocated radius fractures followed by 6 weeks relief through thermoplastic splint seems to be sufficient to achieve good 1-year results. MRI-detectable carpal lesions at the time of the radial fracture are common, but only a few of them seem to decompensate later, give symptoms and became of therapeutic relevance.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Mar 2016
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyContinuous adductor canal block versus continuous femoral nerve block after total knee arthroplasty for mobilisation capability and pain treatment: a randomised and blinded clinical trial.
Continuous femoral nerve blocks for total knee arthroplasty can cause motor weakness of the quadriceps muscle and thus prevent early mobilisation. Perioperative falls may result as an iatrogenic complication. In this randomised and blinded trial, we tested the hypothesis that a continuous adductor canal block is superior to continuous femoral nerve block regarding mobilisation ('timed up-and-go' test and other tests) after total knee arthroplasty under general anaesthesia. ⋯ Concerning the mobilisation capability, we did not actually observe a superior effect of CACB compared with CFNB technique in our patients following total knee arthroplasty. Moreover, no difference was observed concerning analgesia quality.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Mar 2016
Comparative StudyProphylactic augmentation of the proximal femur: an investigation of two techniques.
Osteoporotic hip fractures are an increasing problem in an ageing population. They result in high morbidity, mortality and high socioeconomic costs. For patients with poor bone quality, prophylactic augmentation of the proximal femur might be an option for fracture prevention. ⋯ Limited V-shaped PMMA augmentation and PFNA blade insertion did not show any improvement in failure load or energy to failure. Volumes of up to 15 ml PMMA did not cause a critical surface temperature increase.