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Until recently, treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) relied exclusively on supportive therapy, including proper nutrition, ventilatory support, and attention to metabolic bone health.

njury to the growth plate is a concern for kids and teens who play sports. The growth plate (physis) is the area of developing tissue near the end of the long bones. An injury to the growth plate could result in the stopping bone growth or a bone growing unevenly.

If your gangly adolescent suddenly seems clumsy, it s not your imagination. Rapid growth spurts during puberty can cause balance problems and fast-gro...

Ibuprofen may help manage pain in pediatric fracture cases without delaying healing, according to a study.

Total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) are performed more commonly than total ankle arthroplasty (TAA), so patients and the orthopaedic community are more familiar with the likelihood of complications after THA and TKA than after TAA. The present study places early complication rates after TA...

To identify predictors of functional outcomes following treatment of ankle fracture in patients 55 years or older.

Several surgical approaches to the medial elbow are described, however it remains unclear which exposure provides the optimal view of relevant medial elbow structures. The purpose of this anatomic study was to determine the visible surface area of the coronoid process, distal humerus and radial head...

The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of short-term complications after TEA and identify predictors of readmission and reoperation. We hypothesized that TEA performed for acute elbow trauma would have higher rates of 30-day readmission and reoperation than TEA for osteoarthritis.

In patients who had arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, use of a postoperative pain medicine cocktail therapy showed benefits, according to findings.

In a recent propensity matched analysis, patients who opted for surgery experienced superior outcomes compared with patients who decided to try non-operative management first.