Department of Sport & Health, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany. Electronic address: iris.gueldenpenning@uni-paderborn.de.
Educational Research Institute, Education Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, CIDESD, CreativeLab Research Community, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics, German Sport University Cologne, Germany; Sport and Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Research and Enterprise Group, Welkin Laboratories, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
Metacarpal and phalangeal fractures are the second and third most common hand and wrist fractures seen in the emergency department. There are a multitude of operative fixation methods for metacarpal a...
Conversion of provisional external fixation to intramedullary nail (IMN) in femur fractures has been reported to be safe within 14 days of initial surgery. However, there is no current literature guid...
After obtaining IRB approval, tibial fractures (OTA 41A, 42, 43A) that received provisional ex-fix and were converted to IMN from 2009 to 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Skeletally mature patients...
Twenty-eight patients (32%) were treated for deep infection. The infection rate for closed fractures was 28% (11 of 39 patients) and for open fractures was 35% (17 of 49 patients) ( P = 0.56). Examini...
Infection rates of tibial fracture patients treated with external fixation and converted to IMN were high. Surgeons should strongly consider the necessity of external fixation for these fractures. Ear...
Level IV-case series....
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to provide an update of the recent literature comparing clinical outcomes of surgically treated fibular fractures using intramedullary naili...
A literature search reporting clinical outcomes after IMN or ORIF of the distal fibula was conducted on PubMed. Inclusion criteria consisted of original studies; studies focusing on clinical outcomes ...
Of 2,394 studies identified, a total of 29 studies (4 LOE-I, 2 LOE-II, 6 LOE-III, 17 LOE-IV) were included consisting of 1,850 IMN patients and 514 plate patients. The pooled mean age of IMN patients ...
Current literature reveals near equivalence in union rates and a markedly lower risk of complications when comparing IMN with plate fixation. While IMN patients had higher AOFAS and Olerud-Molander sc...
Therapeutic Level IV....
Treatment of acute pediatric Monteggia fractures requires ulnar length stability to maintain reduction of the radiocapitellar joint. When operative care is indicated, intramedullary ulna fixation can ...
A retrospective review of children with acute Monteggia fractures at our Level 1 pediatric trauma center was performed. Patient charts and radiographs were evaluated for age, fracture type, fracture l...
Out of 59 acute Monteggia fractures surgically treated (average age 6 y, range 2 to 14), 15 (25%) patients were fixed with buried intramedullary fixation and 44 (75%) with exposed intramedullary fixat...
Exposed intramedullary fixation yielded equivalent clinical outcomes to buried devices in the treatment of acute pediatric Monteggia fractures while eliminating the need for a second surgery to remove...
III....
Restoration of the medial support is especially important for the treatment of proximal humeral fractures. The objective of this study was to investigate the radiographic and clinical outcomes of intr...
In this retrospective study of patients with displaced proximal humeral fractures that were treated by intramedullary nail between January 2018 and July 2021, fracture morphology and the calcar integr...
A total of 83 patients (54 female, 29 male) had complete follow-up (average, 12.8 months; range, 10 to 33 months) and functional assessment in our study. The average age was 58.6 years (range, 20 to 8...
Intramedullary nail can favorably be used to manage proximal humeral fractures with good early radiographic and functional outcomes, even for those with comminuted calcar....
Fractures of the phalanges can often be managed nonoperatively, but displaced phalangeal fracture patterns, including malrotation, are more amenable to operative treatment. There are several described...
To compare the functional and alignment outcomes of intramedullary nail fixation using suprapatellar and infrapatellar approaches in treating distal tibial fractures....
In this retrospective study, 132 patients with distal tibial fractures (87 men, 45 women) ranging in age from 20 to 66 years were treated with intramedullary nails using the suprapatellar (69 patients...
The mean follow-up time was 14.22 ± 2.31 months. The mean sagittal section angle of the fracture in the suprapatellar and infrapatellar approach groups was 3.20° ± 1.20° and 5.31° ± 1.23°, respectivel...
Intramedullary nailing using the suprapatellar approach facilitates simple fracture reduction, excellent postoperative fracture alignment, and few complications, giving it obvious advantages over the ...
Unstable isolated ulnar shaft fractures are rare injuries that need to be surgically treated. The purpose of this study was to compare the functional and radiographic outcomes of two types of surgerie...
Our hypothesis was that IMF obtained similar outcomes to ORIF....
All patients treated for an isolated distal or middle third ulnar shaft fracture between 2016 and 2019 were enrolled into two groups: ORIF and IMF. The technique performed depended on the surgeon's pr...
A total of 81 patients with a mean age of 34 years were divided into two groups: 34 in ORIF and 47 in IMF. The two groups had similar demographics, mechanisms of injury, and preoperative fracture char...
In the treatment of unstable isolated ulnar shaft fractures, IMF and ORIF had similar clinical and radiographic outcomes in terms of bone healing. The mean ulnar shortening reported in the IMF group w...
IMF is a feasible therapeutic alternative to ORIF for isolated fractures of the distal two-thirds of the ulnar shaft. Further studies with a higher level of evidence need to be conducted to confirm th...
IV, retrospective study....
The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy of a novel intramedullary fixation technique using the ortho-bridge system (OBS) for midshaft clavicle fractures....
A total of 63 patients were included in this study: 35 underwent plate internal fixation (LP group) and 28 underwent OBS intramedullary fixation (OBS group). Surgical time, intraoperative blood loss, ...
Preoperative general data, such as sex, age and fracture type, were not significantly different between the two groups (P > 0.05). However, the OBS group exhibited better outcomes than the LP group ex...
For midshaft clavicle fractures, OBS intramedullary fixation is better than locking-plate internal fixation because it led to less trauma, a faster recovery, better efficacy, and better esthetic outco...
III, retrospective observational study....
Distal tibia fractures often occur in younger, high demand patients, though the literature surrounding management remains contentious. This study sought to quantitatively determine differences in knee...
There is no difference in kneeling tolerance following either tibial nailing or plate fixation of distal tibia fractures....
Retrospective sampling of public hospital data with outpatient prospective functional testing were completed. The primary outcome measure was the Kneeling Test (KT). Secondary outcome measures were Th...
The IMN affected limb had a significantly worse overall kneeling function than their non-affected limb (mean KT: 70.4 vs. 94.9 respectively, p<0.005) Additionally, the IMN group performed significantl...
The use of intramedullary nailing for the treatment of distal tibia fracture results in a mean reduction of 20% in kneeling tolerance in comparison to ORIF. The resulting kneeling tolerance is compara...
IV; retrospective cohort study with quantitative outcome measurement....
