Limb length discrepancies of the lower extremity often cause disabling problems of the hips and lower back. It is also known as the short leg syndrome. This problem may affect as much as 75-80 ...

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 ...

The modified Fels knee skeletal maturity system accurately estimates ultimate limb length discrepancy and appropriate timing of epiphysiodesis in pediatric patients with lower limb discrepancy ...

To address the now 11.5-cm bone loss (3.5-cm leg length discrepancy plus 8-cm resection), an osteotomy was made in the subtrochanteric region of the femur to create a mid-transport segment to be ...

Leg length discrepancy is relatively common following hip arthroplasty, ... Leaving an extremity shortened may result in postoperative hip instability, which is far more problematic. 1,2.

THE term "varicose veins" customarily suggests, immediately, and almost exclusively, abnormal dilatations and tortuosities of the saphenous veins of the lower extremity. If one then stops to reflec ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Similar to Nemo, the clownfish with the small but lucky fin from the popular film "Finding Nemo," 11-month-old Gabriella Hetler from Jension has two "lucky fins," so to speak ...