[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of randomised controlled trials assessing effectiveness of prosthetic and orthotic interventions

A Healy, S Farmer, A Pandyan, N Chockalingam - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Assistive products are items which allow older people and people with
disabilities to be able to live a healthy, productive and dignified life. It has been estimated …

Patient-reported outcome measures for hand and wrist trauma: is there sufficient evidence of reliability, validity, and responsiveness?

PJ Dacombe, R Amirfeyz, T Davis - Hand, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are important tools for assessing
outcomes following injuries to the hand and wrist. Many commonly used PROMs have no …

[HTML][HTML] Application of 3D–printed and patient-specific cast for the treatment of distal radius fractures: initial experience

YJ Chen, H Lin, X Zhang, W Huang, L Shi… - 3D printing in …, 2017 - Springer
Background Distal radius fracture is common in the general population. Fracture
management includes a plaster cast, splint and synthetic material cast to immobilise the …

Intention-to-treat and per-protocol analysis

K Boutis, A Willan - Cmaj, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
I congratulate CMAJ and Boutis and colleagues for a brilliant research paper. 1 Intention-to-
treat analysis is a comparison of the treatment groups that includes all patients as originally …

Interventions for treating wrist fractures in children

HHG Handoll, J Elliott, Z Iheozor‐Ejiofor… - Cochrane database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Wrist fractures, involving the distal radius, are the most common fractures in
children. Most are buckle fractures, which are stable fractures, unlike greenstick and other …

Pediatric hand and wrist fractures

JCY Liao, AKS Chong - Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 2019 - plasticsurgery.theclinics.com
Hand and wrist fractures have been consistently reported as among the most common
fractures in children. 1–3 They are 3 times more common in boys and peak in the teenage …

An alternative to plaster cast treatment in a pediatric trauma center using the CAD/CAM technology to manufacture customized three-dimensional-printed orthoses in a …

P Guida, A Casaburi, T Busiello… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
The aim of this study is to implement the clinical use of the three-dimensional (3D) design
and printing technology in pediatric pathologies requiring immobilization. We describe the …

A randomized controlled trial of cast versus splint for distal radial buckle fracture: an evaluation of satisfaction, convenience, and preference

KG Williams, G Smith, SJ Luhmann, J Mao… - Pediatric …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Buckle fractures are inherently stable and at low risk for displacement. These
advantages allow for treatment options that may create confusion for the practitioner …

Point‐of‐care ultrasound pronator quadratus hematoma sign for detection of clinically non‐angulated pediatric distal forearm fractures: a prospective cohort study

PJ Snelling, G Keijzers, RS Ware - Journal of Ultrasound in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) diagnosis of distal forearm fractures relies on
the identification of buckling or breach of hyperechoic bone cortex. We describe the pronator …

Teaching splinting techniques using a just-in-time training instructional video

YT Cheng, DR Liu, VJ Wang - Pediatric Emergency Care, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective Splinting is a multistep procedure that is seldom performed by primary care
physicians. Just-in-time training (JITT) is an emerging teaching modality and can be an …