An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...
Traumatologists who conducted a multicenter trial into closing high-risk lower extremity fractures with standard dressings vs. negative-pressure wound therapy found the vacuum-assisted closure ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BALTIMORE — The age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index could serve as a useful tool to predict survival after ...
Objectives: To examine the value of operative fracture stabilization by means of the ring fixator in fractures of the lower extremity in the presence of chronic paralysis caused by transverse lesions ...
FATIGUE fracture, synonymously called march fracture, is a condition most commonly seen in recruits who are suddenly subjected to unaccustomed physical training. This entity was initially recorded by ...
Compared with patients with normal vitamin D levels, those with low vitamin D levels had significantly longer clinical (44.0 vs 37.0 days) and radiographic (74.0 vs 39.0 days) healing times.
A new study shows that older women’s risk of broken bones increases with weight gain and with weight loss, findings that contradict long-held beliefs that weight gain actually offers protection ...
Correspondence to David Larsson, Department of Clinical Sciences and Orthopedic Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University Malmö, Riksdalervägen 9, Hägersten S-129 32, Sweden; ...
The PREVENA RESTOR™ Therapy portfolio optimizes post-operative care by delivering negative pressure therapy to the incision and surrounding soft tissue to enhance recovery ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS ...