Trauma News

BOULDER, Colo. — At the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, Jonathan T. Bravman, MD, spoke about the management of clavicle fractures in cyclists.

BOULDER, Colo. — At the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, Kenneth Hunt, MD, discussed the three most common foot and ankle injuries in extreme sports athletes.

BARCELONA, Spain — Investigators from the United Kingdom reported fracture widening of 8 mm seen on CT in patients with a tibial plateau fracture may predict a concomitant bucket-handle meniscal tear is present that needs to be addressed. However, they found no correlation of Schatzker fracture grade with the presence of a tear.

BOULDER, Colo. — At the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, Aaron J. Provance, MD, discussed the epidemiology and current guidelines for concussions in adventure athletes.

BOULDER, Colo.— Adolescents with a sports-related concussion had worse initial impairments in overall quality of life compared with adolescents who had a sports-related fracture, according to a speaker at the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress.

BARCELONA, Spain — The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology is in the early stages of forging a new plan to better communicate what EFORT is to the European community, which needs to convey that the organization is more than its annual congress, Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, MD, who will become the 2018/2019 president of the EFORT board, said.

Use of a calcium and vitamin D supplementation regimen among patients who experienced orthopedic trauma may effectively reduce hypovitaminosis D within several weeks, according to results published in The Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.

The FDA announced it has granted Imagen permission to market OsteoDetect, a type of computer-aided detection and diagnosis software that can detect wrist fractures in adult patients, according to a press release. The software is intended to be used by clinicians in primary care, emergency medicine, urgent care and specialty care, such as orthopedics.

A paper published in EFORT Open Reviews and written by Harron Majeed, MBBS, MRCS, MSc, FEBOT, FRCS, and colleagues revealed appropriate management of talar fractures depends on size, location and displacement of the fragment, the degree of articular cartilage damage and instability of the subtalar joint.

Despite similar results seen after nonoperative and operative treatment of displaced distal clavicle fractures, operative treatment significantly lowered the rate of malunion and nonunion, according to a presentation in the Game Changers session at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.