In this article, we discuss the use of three-dimensional (3-D) printed patient-specific implants in the management of upper extremity fractures. Traditional fracture fixation methods involve the use o...
Some female upper extremity (UE) surgeons face unique barriers to participation at in-person academic and professional society meetings due to disparate childcare and household duties relative to male...
We queried webinars conducted by the following professional societies: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), American Association for Hand Surgery,...
A total of 175 UE webinars were identified, with 173 of 175 (99%) having functioning video links. The 173 webinars had 706 speakers and 173 (25%) were women. Female representation in professional soci...
Between 2020 and 2022, women comprised 25% of speakers for professional society academic webinars with a focus on UE surgery, which exceeds the proportion of women in the individual sponsoring profess...
Online webinars may mitigate some of the barriers that female UE surgeons face with respect to professional development and academic advancement. Although female participation in UE webinars often exc...
Duplex ultrasound allows accurate preoperative flap planning through mapping of perforator location and anatomy. In the hand and upper extremity, where thickness of the subcutaneous fat is less compar...
The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) changes and postoperative neurologic deficit in patients with Scheuermann's Kyphosis (SK) undergoing po...
Single-center, retrospective chart review of the clinical, surgical and IONM data (somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) and neurogenic motor evoked potential (NMEP) or transcranial motor evoked poten...
One hundred and four SK patients (mean 16.4 ± 1.9 years) underwent PSF with correction of kyphosis from mean 79.4 ± 10.8° to 35.4 ± 13.9°. MEP data were obtained using either NMEP in 34.6% of patients...
The incidence of critical LE IONM changes during PSF for SK is 3.4%, which is similar to that reported in AIS. UE IONM changes are significantly more common at 13.4%, revealing that these patients are...
Increase in youth sports participation, longer duration of play, and earlier starting points have increased the prevalence of acute and repetitive overuse musculoskeletal injuries. This rise in injury...
To assess the diagnostic accuracy of public representation of congenital differences of the upper extremities. We hypothesized that there is an over-diagnosis of certain diagnoses such as amniotic con...
Publicly shared images and associated diagnoses were searched on publicly available news media and social media accounts published from October 2018 through November 2021 using key terms such as "amni...
A total of 100 images were collected with the reported diagnosis associated with each image. Two images were removed due to evidence of prior surgery. The hand surgeons' diagnosis disagreed with the r...
Media and social media depictions of congenital upper extremity differences are frequently inaccurate, and our search demonstrated that the amniotic constriction band is the most commonly reported, in...
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» Diagnostic ultrasound evaluation has become an important adjunct to electrodiagnostic studies in the diagnosis of upper extremity entrapment neuropathy. » For the common median and ulnar entrapment ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of scapular kinesiotaping and sham-taping applications on upper extremity functionality in healthy active subjects....
In total, 60 participants were randomly divided into two groups: scapular kinesiotaping group (n=30) and sham-taping group (n=30). While scapular kinesiotaping was applied to the kinesiotaping group, ...
Participants in the scapular kinesiotaping group showed improvement in upper extremity functionality and quality of life after taping (p<0.05). In the sham-taping group, there was no statistically sig...
Scapular kinesiotaping is effective in improving upper extremity functionality in healthy active subjects....
Clinicians assessing patients with deliberate self-inflicted amputations face a problem of whether or not to replant. The objective of this study was to summarize the literature on this topic and prov...
Two reviewers searched four databases using the keywords "Upper extremity," "Amputation," and "Self-Inflicted." The reviewers systematically screened and collected data on publications reporting cases...
Twenty-four studies were included. Twenty-nine cases of self-inflicted upper-extremity amputations were reported. There were 25 unilateral and four bilateral extremity amputations. Amputations were mo...
The literature shows that patients experiencing psychosis or depression committed self-harm during an acute psychiatric decompensation, and once medically and psychiatrically stabilized, expressed sat...
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To determine if the distribution of transcallosal inhibition (TI) acting on proximal and distal upper extremity muscles is altered in chronic stroke....
We examined thirteen healthy controls and sixteen mildly to moderately impaired chronic stroke patients. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to probe TI from the contralesional onto ipsile...
Both groups had stronger TI acting on their FDIs than BICs (p < 0.001). However, stroke patients also had stronger TI acting on their BICs than controls (p = 0.034), resulting in a flatter distributio...
TI is more evenly distributed to the paretic FDI and BIC in chronic stroke. The relative increase in proximal inhibition does not relate to better function, as it does distally....
The results expand our knowledge about segment-specific neurophysiology and its relevance to impairment after stroke....
