The December 2024 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup360 looks at: Establishing best practice for managing idiopathic toe walking in children: a UK consensus; Long-term outcomes of below-elbow casting in paediatric diaphyseal forearm fractures; Residual dysplasia risk persists in developmental dysplasia of the hip patients after Pavlik harness treatment; 3D printing in paediatricorthopaedics: enhancing surgical efficiency and patient outcomes; Pavlik harness treatment for hip dysplasia does not delay motor skill development in children; High prevalence of hip dysplasia found in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis on routine spine radiographs; Minifragment plates as effective growth modulation for ulnar deformities of the distal radius in children; Long-term success of Chiari pelvic osteotomy in preserving hip function: 30-year follow-up study.
The October 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup360 looks at: Radiographic follow-up of DDH; When the supracondylar goes wrong; Apophyseal avulsion fractures; The ‘pulled elbow’; Surgical treatment of active or aggressive aneurysmal bone cysts in children; Improving stability in supracondylar fractures; Biological reconstruction may be preferable in children’s osteosarcoma; The paediatric hip fracture
The August 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup360 looks at: Conservative treatment still OK in paediatric clavicular fractures; Femoral anteversion not the usual suspect in patellar inversion; Shoulder dislocation best treated with an operation; Perthes’ disease results in poorer quality of adult life; Physiotherapy little benefit in supracondylar fractures; Congenital vertical talus addressed at the midtarsal joint; Single-sitting DDH surgery worth the effort; and cubitus valgus associated with simple elbow dislocation
The April 2012 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup360 looks at osteonecrosis of the femoral head and surgery for dysplasia, femoral head blood flow during surgery, femoroacetabular impingement and sport in adolescence, the Drehmann sign, a predictive algorithm for septic arthritis, ACL reconstruction and arthrofibrosis in children, spinal cord monitoring for those less than four years old, arthroereisis for the flexible flat foot, fixing the displaced lateral humeral fracture, and mobile phones and inclinometer applications