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Stephen Kennedy; Heather Barske; Kevin Wing; Murray Penner; Timothy Daniels; Mark Glazebrook; Peter Dryden; Hubert Wong; Alastair Younger
Category: Foot and Ankle

BACKGROUND: Mental health status has been shown to influence functional outcome in a number of orthopaedic disorders. The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to assess whether a diminished baseline Mental Component Summary (MCS) score on the Short Form-36 (SF-36) is...

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Joshua E Schroeder; Alexander Hughes; Andrew Sama; Joseph Weinstein; Leon Kaplan; Frank P Cammisa; Federico P Girardi
Category: Spine

BACKGROUND: Parkinson disease is the second most common neurodegenerative condition. The literature on patients with Parkinson disease and spine surgery is limited, but increased complications have been reported. METHODS: All patients with Parkinson disease undergoing lumbar...

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Masaaki Kakiuchi; Wakaba Fukushima
Category: Pediatrics

BACKGROUND: In posterior decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis, preservation of the posterior elements appears to provide patients with long-term favorable outcomes. To confirm this assumption, we evaluated the impact of spinous process integrity, i.e., osseous continuity...

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Matthew E Oetgen; Allison M Blatz; Allison Matthews
Category: Pediatrics

BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines are being developed for a number of topics in medicine to decrease practice variability and to improve evidenced-based care. Within orthopaedic surgery, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has a dedicated committee that...

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Kishore Mulpuri; Kit M Song; Richard Henry Gross; Gary B Tebor; Norman Yoshinobu Otsuka; John P Lubicky; Elizabeth Ann Szalay; H Theodore Harcke; Bonnie Zehr; Andrew Spooner; Doug Campos-Outcalt; Charlotte Henningsen; David S Jevsevar; Michael Goldberg; W
Category: Pediatrics

JBJS-A is an AAOS Member benefit for AAOS Fellows. Please login to the OrthoPortal using the link in the top right of this page to access all volumes of JBJS-A since 1960. Non AAOS Members may access the JBJS-A online directly on the www.jbjs.org web site via individual or...

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Peter O Newton; Takahito Fujimori; Joshua Doan; Fredrick G Reighard; Tracey P Bastrom; Amirhossein Misaghi
Category: Pediatrics

BACKGROUND: Obtaining accurate measurements of scoliosis from two-dimensional (2-D) radiographs can be challenging because of the three-dimensional (3-D) nature of the deformity. Previous studies have shown that the sagittal plane, in particular, is misrepresented on 2-D...

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S Gumina; V Arceri; C Fagnani; T Venditto; C Catalano; V Candela; L Nisticò
Category: Basic Science

BACKGROUND: Age and peripheral microcirculation disorders are the main causes of rotator cuff degeneration. Acromion variants may affect subacromial space width, causing a pathological narrowing of the space that may compromise the cuff integrity. However, it is not clear if the...

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Robert Litchfield
Category: Basic Science

JBJS-A is an AAOS Member benefit for AAOS Fellows. Please login to the OrthoPortal using the link in the top right of this page to access all volumes of JBJS-A since 1960. Non AAOS Members may access the JBJS-A online directly on the www.jbjs.org web site via individual or...

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Philip E Blazar; W Emerson Floyd; Carin H Han; Tamara D Rozental; Brandon E Earp
Category: Hand and Wrist

BACKGROUND: Corticosteroid injections are commonly used in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome in adults. This study sought to determine success rates early on and at one year postoperatively of a single corticosteroid injection while identifying prognostic indicators for...

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