Orthopedics Research

KEY FINDING: Both brachioradialis (BR) and pronator teres (PT) tendon transfers were equally effective for reconstructing key pinch.

KEY FINDING: The discovery of any voluntary muscle action below the accepted level of injury is an indication that the lesion is incomplete, with a correspondingly favourable prognosis.

KEY FINDING: Tendons from allergic mice exhibited a significant reduction in both elastic modulus and tensile stress.

KEY FINDING: Co-culturing RECs and nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) in the gel significantly increased gene expression of NPC markers, growth factors, and extracellular matrix compared to monocultures.

KEY FINDING: Intradiscal injection is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that can improve pain quality for patients with LBP or lumbar disc herniation (LDH).

KEY FINDING: The classification into SFs and UFs was significant for its angulation (P = 0.0006) and displacement (P < 0.0001).

KEY FINDING: GVR-B has better repeatability of gray value measurement, smaller relative standard deviation (RSD%) compared with GVR-A.

KEY FINDING: Collagen-based scaffolds, when transplanted, showed the most proliferation, and neural stem and progenitor cells survived up to 11 weeks after the transplant.

KEY FINDING: ESWT can promote neural tissue regeneration and repairment in both the central and peripheral nervous systems, as demonstrated in animal studies of sciatic nerve injury, cerebral infarction, and spinal cord injury.

KEY FINDING: RSV exhibits anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-α, which ameliorates IDD progression mediated by inflammation.