A Critical Review on Factors Affecting the User Adoption of Wearable and Soft Robotics.

In recent years, the advent of soft robotics has changed the landscape of wearable technologies. Soft robots are highly compliant and malleable, thus ensuring safe human-machine interactions. To date, a wide variety of actuation mechanisms have been studied and adopted into a multitude of soft wearables for use in clinical practice, such as assistive devices and rehabilitation modalities.

A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots.

Soft actuators and their sensors have always been separate entities with two distinct roles. The omnidirectional compliance of soft robots thus means that multiple sensors have to be used to sense different modalities in the respective planes of motion. With the recent emergence of self-sensing actuators, the two roles have gradually converged to simplify sensing requirements.

Comparing the Predictors of Functional Outcomes After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Modified Frailty Index, Clinical Frailty Scale, and Charlson Comorbidity Index.

Background: The incidence of rotator cuff tears increases with age, and operative management is usually required in patients with persistent symptoms. Although several studies have analyzed the effect of age and comorbidities on outcomes after rotator cuff repair, no study has specifically examined the consequence of frailty.

Purpose: To determine the best frailty/comorbidity index for predicting functional outcomes after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.

Septuagenarians aged 75 years and older do benefit from arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: a propensity matched-pair analysis.

Background: Numerous studies show that patients who failed conservative management, benefit from open, mini open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR). However, there is a paucity of literature addressing ARCR and outcomes in patients older than the age of 75 years. The purpose of our study was to compare the outcomes of ARCR in patients older than 75 years and younger than 75 years of age.

The UCLA Shoulder Score Is a Better Predictor of Treatment Success Than the Constant and Oxford Shoulder Scores After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between functional outcome scores and treatment success after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent unilateral rotator cuff repair at a tertiary hospital between 2010 and 2015. University of California at Los Angeles Shoulder Score (UCLASS), Constant Shoulder Score (CSS), and Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) were measured before and at 6, 12, and 24 months after surgery.

Ultrasonic Percutaneous Tenotomy for Recalcitrant Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy: Clinical and Sonographic Results at 90 Months.

Background: In a study from our institution, ultrasonic percutaneous tenotomy of the brevis and the common extensor tendon for recalcitrant lateral elbow tendinopathy showed excellent safety profiles, high tolerability, efficiency, sustained pain relief, functional improvement, and sonographic evidence of tissue healing in 20 patients at 3 years' follow-up.

Purpose: To explore the long-term clinical and sonographic results of ultrasonic percutaneous tenotomy of the brevis and the common extensor tendon.

Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4.

No Difference in Outcome Between Articular-Sided and Bursal-Sided Tears: Comparative Study With Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up of Arthroscopic Repairs in 104 Patients in a Single-Surgeon Series.

Purpose: To evaluate and compare the functional outcomes after arthroscopic repair of bursal-sided versus articular-sided partial-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients who had undergone arthroscopic tear completion and subsequent repair of symptomatic partial-thickness rotator cuff tears in a single institution from 2010 to 2015. Range of motion (ROM) (forward flexion and abduction), the pain score as measured on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale, and outcome scores (Constant-Murley score, University of California, Los Angeles shoulder score, and Oxford Shoulder Score) were calculated preoperatively and at 1 year and 2 years postoperatively.

Dyslipidemia With Perioperative Statin Usage Is Not Associated With Poorer 24-Month Functional Outcomes After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery.

Background: Current literature suggests a higher rate of rotator cuff disease development in patients with dyslipidemia (DL). Moderate to high levels of DL are associated with higher rates of retear and revision surgery after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Statins protect against development of rotator cuff disease and mitigate the need for rotator cuff repair.

A Review of the Gillquist Maneuver: Modifications for a Safer and Easily Reproducible Approach for Knee Transintercondylar Notch Posterior Compartment Arthroscopy.

The original Gillquist maneuver is done by passing the arthroscope through a portal in the patella tendon between the medial femoral condyle and posterior cruciate ligament to enter the posterior compartment. This is done blind and has been documented to result in broken cameras and damaged equipment. It is also necessary to do a notchplasty to aid the advancement of the camera in patients.

Arthroscopic undersurface rotator cuff repair versus conventional arthroscopic double-row rotator cuff repair - Comparable results at 2-year follow-up.

Aim: The aim of our study is to compare the improvement in clinical outcomes after conventional arthroscopic double-row rotator cuff repair and arthroscopic undersurface rotator cuff repair.

Method: A consecutive series of 120 patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair was analysed. Sixty-one patients underwent conventional double-row rotator cuff repair and 59 patients underwent undersurface rotator cuff repair.

Pain Resolution After Hallux Valgus Surgery.

Background: Although more than 1500 publications on hallux valgus can be found in the current literature, none of them have reported on the course of pain resolution after hallux valgus surgery. Thus, this study aimed to investigate pain resolution after hallux valgus surgery and to identify predictive factors associated with residual pain at 6 months after surgery.

Methods: We prospectively followed up 308 patients who underwent hallux valgus surgery at a tertiary hospital at 6 months and 2 years after surgery.

Drilling the near cortex with elongated figure-of-8 holes to reduce the stiffness of a locking compression plate construct.

Purpose: To compare the stiffness of locking compression plate (LCP) constructs with or without drilling the near cortex with elongated figure-of-8 holes.

Methods: 24 synthetic bones were sawn to create a 10-mm gap and were fixed with a 9-hole 4.5-mm narrow LCP.