Pediatrics News

In the setting of a craniectomy defect there are limited options for performing an occipitocervical fusion, but the technique may mitigate some of the complications associated with occipital screw placement, according to the results in a recently published study.

Findings recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery showed preseason, side-to-side differences in horizontal adduction and internal rotation range of motion identified adolescent pitchers who were at an increased risk of injury during the subsequent season.

Findings published recently in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery showed treatment of large, unstable osteochondritis dissecans lesions of the capitellum allowed reliable return to play, was safe and had good clinical outcomes at short-term follow-up in adolescent athletes.

According to recently published data, overuse injury is a significant issue facing athletes at the collegiate and high school levels.

Orthopedics Today features eight stories of importance to emerge from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting

ORLANDO, Fla. — Researchers observed an increase in the incidence of ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction in young athletes between the ages of 15 and 19 years old, according to study results.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Skeletally immature patients with 3 years to 6 years of remaining growth who underwent all-inside, all-epiphyseal ACL reconstruction demonstrated a 9% failure rate, with most patients returning to sports — but not until an average of 12.5 months postoperatively, according to the findings from a study presented here.

Advances in modern instrumentation may allow a surgeon to recommend an earlier return to sports for a patient after fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, according to results of a recently published study.

Among pediatric patients, the saline solution load test was a reasonable option for the detection of traumatic arthrotomy, according to researchers’ findings.

Pediatric patients who underwent arthroscopic reshaping for symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus experienced satisfactory clinical outcomes after a mean of 10.1 years, according to study results.