Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
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Repetitive microtrauma can result in a hypertrophied ATFL. Previous studies have found that the anterior talofibular ligament thickness (ATFLT) is correlated with lateral ankle sprains, ligament injuries and chronic stroke in patients, and thickened anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) has been considered to be a major morphologic parameter of hypertrophied ATFL. However, hypertrophy is different from thickness. Thus, we devised the anterior talofibular ligament area (ATFLA) as a new morphological parameter to evaluate the hypertrophy of the whole ATFL. ⋯ ATFLA is a new morphological parameter for evaluating chronic ankle sprain, and may even be more sensitive than ATFLT.
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We reported a new technique for arthroscopic ligamentoplasty for the thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis (CMC-OA) along with a minimum of 2 years of results. ⋯ Therapeutic study/Level IV.
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Pain-avoidance is considered to be one of the major leading factors to develop a chronic low back pain (CLBP). In this study, we aimed to translate the Behavioral Avoidance Test-Back Pain (BAT-Back) into Turkish and evaluate its psychometric properties in patients with CLBP. ⋯ We are of the opinion that, compared to the self-report scales, TrBAT-Back will provide more objective data in detecting avoidance behaviour associated with pain in Turkish speaking patients with CLBP.