Intertrochanteric hip fractures can be difficult to treat. With this type of hip fracture, there is a break or fracture line between two bony bumps on the femur (thigh bone). The larger bump on the upper outer part of the femur is the greater trochanter. The bump on the inside (medial) part of the femur is the lesser trochanter.

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With today's improved technology in and out of the operating room, patients have the option of bilateral total knee replacement (TKR) at the same time. This can be done by one surgical team doing both knees (first one, then the other) in the same operation. Or there can be two surgical teams working on both knees at the same time.

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This is the first published study on the number and type of injuries sustained by children using an inflatable bouncer. The bouncers are enclosed and seem safe, but accidents do occur.

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In this article, physicians from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) bring us up to date on perilunate discloations. A perilunate dislocation is a wrist injury that occurs when there is enough force through the wrist to tear the ligaments and displace the lunate. The lunate is one of several wrist bones.

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There are many possible causes of low back pain (LBP). But when the sciatic nerve is irritated, patients are classified in a subset group as having radicular LBP. Treatment for this problem remains under investigation. In this study, the early use of an intramuscular corticosteroid injection for this problem is studied.

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Disability caused by neck pain can be measured using the Neck Disability Index (NDI). In this study, the NDI is translated into the Catalan language and tested with whiplash patients. The goal was to understand how chronic neck pain from a whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) can affect a patient's life. Secondary goals were to assist in planning treatment and measuring progress over time.

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Back and leg pain in the older adult population is often caused by spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal). And a common cause of the stenosis is degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (one vertebra slips forward over another). In this study, the use of a Dynesys system to stabilize the spine is investigated.

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Trigger finger, medically termed stenosing tenosynovitis, is fairly common among adults. It results in a person's hand taking on the position of getting ready to pull a gun trigger. Unfortunately, treatment for trigger finger doesn't guarantee that it won't come back and many people find themselves with the problem again later on.

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Fractures, or breaks, of the tibia (shin bone) are the most common type of break in the longer bones of the human body. These fractures can be clean breaks with little or no bone movement or they can be severe breaks that also cause damage to the muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and body tissues around the broken bone.

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Kienbock disease, a disorder where the blood supply fails to reach the small bones in the wrist, causing bone cell death, often feels at first like a sprained wrist. Unfortunately, unlike a sprained wrist, Kienbock disease needs treatment to remove the damaged part of the bone. To do this, surgeons have been performing a procedure called radial osteotomy, where they remove part of the bone.

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