Background: Overprescription of narcotic pain medication is a major culprit in the present opioid epidemic plaguing United States. The current literature on lower extremity usage has limitations and would benefit from additional study. purpose our study was to prospectively assess consumption patterns following outpatient orthopedic foot ankle procedures. Methods: Patients undergoing procedures who met inclusion criteria had prospective information collected: patient demographics,...

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes patients who underwent reverse total shoulder arthroplasty performed for glenohumeral osteoarthritis (GHOA) with an intact rotator cuff compared tear arthropathy (CTA).This a retrospective review prospectively collected data including consecutive GHOA or CTA minimum 2-year follow-up. Baseline patient demographics and active range motion, American Shoulder Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, Single Assessment Numerical...

Background: This study aims to rule out the injuries sustained during training period with help of Selective Functional Movement Assessment Scale in Professional Karate Players so that injury can be treated before leads further dysfunction or disability. With selective functional movement assessment scale every joint was assessed professional karate players different years practice, both male and female from 5 16 age. Methodology: Prior assessment, this study, demographic data including...

Surgical knee arthroscopy is among the most commonly performed procedures in United States. The decision to treat often based on clinical examination and magnetic resonance imaging. Equivocal results frequently require patients undergo surgical arthroscopy, exposing patient inherent risks potential complications. Office-based needle provides an alternative approach visualizing intra-articular anatomy pathology real time. purpose of this article provide a standardized diagnostic knee.

Nonoperative treatment for midportion Achilles tendinosis is well defined by the literature. Multiple modalities are described management of insertional pathology, but no consensus exists regarding efficacy. Surgical intervention (IAT) successful greater than 80% time. Our objective was to risk stratify patients who would fail nonsurgical IAT and thus benefit progressing surgery. We reviewed records 664 with IAT. The cohort 53% male obese. Mean age 53.7 years (standard deviation 14.7 years)....

SUMMARY Sera of several canine patients contained an isoenzyme alkaline phosphatase ( alp ) that resembled intestinal with respect to heat inactivation, l -phenylalanine inhibition, and sensitivity anti-canine antibody, but differed regard the electrophoretic migration. The mobility was slightly cathodal than hepatic , its migration reduced, similar after neuraminidase treatment. This isoenzyme, which could be corticosteroid induced, in sera numerous dogs hepatobiliary disorders different...

Efficient and effective preoperative identification of those patients with elevated risk may allow for more cost-effective interventions, accurate bundled payment adjustments, overall improved patient care. Few comorbidity indices have provided clinical utility adequate discriminative ability in the setting complications after shoulder arthroplasty (SA).The American College Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database was queried anatomic and/or reverse SA procedures...

Introduction: The primary purpose of this study was to determine the number patients who would be denied a complication-free total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) based on implementation body mass index (BMI) eligibility cutoffs. Methods: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database queried identify all underwent TSA. Patient demographics and 30-day postoperative complications were compared according BMI stratification using Pearson chi-square test binary logistic regression analysis...

New Jersey State Law, P.L. 2017 Chapter 28 22, C.24:21–15.2, passed in February 2017, is the most restrictive opioid legislation thus far United States. This study evaluated effects of this on postoperative prescriptions patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR). Opioid were compared following RCR before and after implementation new law using Prescription Monitoring Program Aware Drug Database. A consecutive cohort who underwent during a 6-month period prior to was with went...

Previous literature has demonstrated an association between acute opioid exposure and the risk of long-term use. Here, investigators assess immediate postoperative consumption patterns as well incidence prolonged use among opioid-naïve patients following ankle fracture surgery.Included underwent outpatient open reduction internal fixation or tibial plafond over a 1-year period. At patients' first visit, pills were counted standardized to equivalent number 5-mg oxycodone pills. Prolonged was...

Patients with workers' compensation (WC) insurance claims are often shown to experience inferior patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after an orthopaedic surgical intervention compared patients without WC claims.To compare the postoperative PROs of (WC patients) versus those (non-WC proximal hamstring repair (PHR).Cohort study; Level evidence, 3.WC who underwent PHR between November 2011 and September 2020 were propensity score matched at a 1:2 ratio non-WC according age, sex, body mass index....

Background. The Foot and Ankle Ability Measure (FAAM) is among the most widely utilized best psychometrically supported lower extremity–specific patient-reported outcome measures. However, its content relevance has never been directly subjected to patient assessment. Methods. This was an institutional review board–approved, prospective, cross-sectional study of 75 patients with Achilles tendon diseases who ranked FAAM’s items subscales as 1 = Not relevant, 2 Somewhat or 3 Very relevant....

This study sought to determine whether range of motion (ROM) the ankle and subtalar joint complex (STJ) is correlated with injuries in National Basketball Association (NBA) G-league collegiate basketball players identify an at-risk population that may benefit from participation injury prevention program. prospective cohort encompassed 103 player-seasons (68 collegiate, 35 NBA G-League). Patient demographics, passive STJ measurements, anterior drawer, talar tilt tests were collected at...

Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERP) is commonly used in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic disorders. The aim this pictorial essay to provide an overview common appearances normal anatomy, anatomic variants, diseases at ERP.

Objectives: Hemorrhagic transformation of the ischemic lesion is a common thrombolytic complication when treating acute stroke patients with standard IV-tPA. In retrospective study we demonstrated that have HT post-thrombolysis significantly lowered cerebral blood volume (CBV) on their pre-thrombolysis MRI compared to non patients. The objective this was determine prospectively whether reduced CBV in combination severity can predict occurrence post-thrombolysis. Methods: Patients were...

Category: Other Introduction/Purpose: The purpose of our study was to assess opioid consumption patterns following outpatient orthopaedic foot and ankle procedures in order develop a pragmatic approach narcotic drug prescription. Methods: Patients undergoing who met inclusion criteria had the prospective information collected: patient demographics, preoperative health history Visual Analog Scale (VAS), anesthesia type, procedural details, prescription details. Utilization rates were compared...