Recently, after careful evaluation of an area tennis player who would twist his ankle during a game, it was found that he had a leg lenth shortage. This leg length discrepancy is what created his" ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . We present a match-paired study between computer-assisted and free-hand techniques using a short modular femoral ...

The ‘progress zone’ model provides a framework for understanding progressive development of the vertebrate limb 1. This model holds that undifferentiated cells in a zone of fixed size at the distal ...

Introduction The purpose of this study is to analyse the presence of leg length discrepancies in track and field athletes with stress fractures. Material-Methods During 1990–2007 we studied 88 track ...

There are four phases to treatment. Distraction is first and usually begins 5 to 7 days postoperatively. The optimum distraction is 1mm/day divided into four increments, or 0.25mm every 6 hours. In ...

A move to lengthen limbs internally rather than via an external scaffold could reduce the effects of painful treatments, especially among younger patients Screaming woke Lanz Ellingsworth. The ...