Background: Tennis elbow is a common condition in the UK but there are no guidelines on how best to manage the condition. The purpose of the present study was to establish the current UK practice in managing patients with ...

OBJECTIVES: to report and evaluate the functional outcome of plate fixation in comminuted olecranon fractures (Mayo types IIB and IIIB). METHOD: 23 consecutive patients with comminuted fractures of the olecranon presenting ...

AIM: We present the medium-term clinical results of a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty with a trabecular metal glenoid base plate. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We reviewed 125 consecutive primary reverse total shoulder ...

BACKGROUND: Little published evidence exists on the incidence of continuing acromioclavicular joint pain with no published outcomes for revision surgery. This study aimed to establish the incidence and outcomes of revision ...

Background: Medium-term clinical results and survival of the Copeland resurfacing hemiarthroplasty of the shoulder (CRHA) in a large consecutive group are presented with a comparison of outcomes for underlying pathologies. ...

Aims: Large population-based studies have demonstrated increased prevalence of rotator cuff disease amongst diabetics. Recent studies have suggested comparable clinical outcomes from rotator cuff repair despite suggestions ...

INTRODUCTION: A nightstick fracture is an isolated fracture of the ulnar shaft. Although operative and non-operative treatments have been commonly decided by the degree of displacement of the fracture, still there is a ...

BACKGROUND: A large metaphyseal volume shoulder hemiarthroplasty has been in use within our department since 2008; however, no clinical outcome data are available for this prosthesis apart from the designer surgeon series. ...