Open Fractures / Frx Healing Acetabular Fracture Ankle Fractures Barton’s Fracture: Dorsal Barton’s Fracture Volar Barton’s Fracture Bennet’s Fracture Both Bone Forearm Frx Boxer’s Frx Burst Fractures (of spine) Calcaneus, Frx Capitulum Fractures Chauffeur’s Fracture Chance Fracture Clavicle Fracture Colles Fracture Compression Frx (Spinal) Condylar Fractures (of elbow) Coronoid Process Frx Cuboid Frx Den’s Fracture … Read more
– Technique: Cancellous bone is obtained from the lateral femur with a large curette through the fenestration made for the reamer. During the entire reaming procedure a large sucker is used to remove the loose fragments and blood from the cavity. Periodically during the procedure, the contents of the sucker are emptied into the bone … Read more
– Insurance: Your insurance policy is a contract between you and your insurance company. It is most important that you understand its provisions. Review your policy and become familiar with it’s benefits and provisions. In general we file insurance as a courtesy to the patient, but will provide information you need for filing. Any dispute … Read more
– Mechanism: ACL Tear: – Physical Exam of ACL Tears: (see knee exam) – Anterior Drawer Test – Anteromedial Rotatory Stability: – Anterolateral Rotatory Instability – Clunk Test – Lachman – Losee Test – Partial ACL – Pivot … Read more
(Johner and Wruhs: Clin. Orthop. 178:7-25, 1983) A1 A2 A3 simple frc butterfly fragment comminution Class: A1 spiral A2 oblique … Read more
– See: – Kyphosis Menu: – Post Traumatic Kyphosis: – Treatment: – anterior corpectomy and strut-grafting; – preferred technique; – lateral borders of the vertebral body must be preserved; … Read more
– Anatomy: – PCL is approximately twice as strong and twice as thick as the normal ACL (therefore less commonly injured); – size: 13 mm, its length, 38 mm, (approximates that of ACL); – origin: – PCL originates from the antero-lateral aspect of … Read more
– Discussion: – comprises articular frx w/ articular incongruity but minimal comminution; – frx extend into the joint distally from a spiral frx of distal tibia – ankle mortise must be evaluated carefully to determine if fibular frx in question is part of joint injury or merely frx assoc … Read more
– See: – TKR Menu – Joint Line Position: – Posterior Stabilized Prosthesis: – Function of Posterior Cruciate Ligament: (see PCL) – as the knee flexes, eccentric postion of the PCL femoral orgin prodecues a tensile force in the ligament; – because of nonconforming low friction articlation, this tensile force is converted into a translatory … Read more
– Sequential Order of Release: – PCL: (posterior stabilized prosthesis is generally required); – LCL – in general, sepquential elevation of the femoral origin of the LCL is performed prior to release of other structures because … Read more