Listen to Mr Andrew Duckworth & Professor Fares Haddad discuss this year's challenges and accomplishments at The Bone & Joint Journal, including the achievements made by Bone & Joint Open in her second year of publication and the new digital products, OrthoSearch and OrthoMedia.


Papers discussed:

Click here to read: The EBJIS definition of periprosthetic joint infection
Click here to read: The lifetime risk of revision following total hip arthroplasty
Click here to read: Robotic arm-assisted versus conventional medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: five-year clinical outcomes of a randomized controlled trial
Click here to read: Cast immobilization is non-inferior to volar locking plates in relation to QuickDASH after one year in patients aged 65 years and older: a randomized controlled trial of displaced distal radius fractures

Listen to Andrew Duckworth & our Specialty Editor for General Orthopaedics and Editor Emeritus, James Scott, discuss three papers published in The Bone & Joint Journal.

Papers discussed:
Distension arthrogram in the treatment of adhesive capsulitis has a low rate of repeat intervention

Tibial shape and size predicts the risk of tibial plateau fracture after cementless unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in Japanese patients

Intra-articular corticosteroid injections increase the risk of requiring knee arthroplasty
a multicentre longitudinal observational study using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Listen to Andrew Duckworth and Tim Schepers discuss the paper 'Functional outcome of routine versus on-demand removal of the syndesmotic screw: a multicentre randomized controlled trial' published in the November 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal.

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Our third podcast in this edition is with Dell Medical School's Professor David Ring.

Papers discussed: 

• Cost-effectiveness of surgery versus cast immobilization for adults with a bicortical fracture of the scaphoid waist: an economic evaluation of the SWIFFT trial
• Predictors for poor outcome for conservatively treated traumatic triangular fibrocartilage complex tears
• Mental-Health Phenotypes and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Upper-Extremity Illness
• Surgery versus cast immobilisation for adults with a bicortical fracture of the scaphoid waist (SWIFFT): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, randomised superiority trial
• Acute distal biceps tendon repair using cortical button fixation results in excellent short- and long-term outcomes
  
  
  
  

Listen to Andrew Duckworth,  Jonathan Phillips, Keith Tucker and Prof Haddad discuss the paper 'Implant brand portfolios, the potential for camouflage of data, and the role of the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel in total knee arthroplasty' published in the October 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal.

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Our second podcast in this edition is with Mayo Clinic's Prof Matt Abdel.

Papers discussed: 

• Outcomes of operatively treated interprosthetic femoral fractures
• Isolated tibial insert exchange in revision total knee arthroplasty
• The effectiveness of laboratory tests to predict early postoperative periprosthetic infection after total knee arthroplasty
• Increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection after acute, traumatic wound dehiscence following primary total knee arthroplasty

Listen to Andrew Duckworth and Emma Vodden, Director of Publishing at The Bone & Joint Journal, discuss the new platform, OrthoSearch.

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'We've tried to make undiscoverable content discoverable.'

Listen to Andrew Duckworth & our Specialty Editor for Trauma, Prof Matt Costa, discuss three  papers published in The Bone & Joint Journal.

Papers discussed:

Effect on health-related quality of life of the X-Bolt dynamic plating system versus the sliding hip screw for the fixation of trochanteric fractures of the hip in adults: the WHiTE Four randomized clinical trial

The Orthopaedic Trauma Society classification of open fractures

The 30-day survival and recovery after hip fracture by timing of mobilization and dementia: a UK database study

Listen to Mr Andrew Duckworth interview Professor Fares Haddad and Dr John C. Clohisy in a podcast to accompany The Hip Society supplement comprising of 21 articles from the 2020 closed meetings.

Click here for The Hip Society Supplement

Listen to Mr Andrew Duckworth interview Professor Fares Haddad and Dr Bryan Springer in a podcast to accompany The Knee Society supplement comprising of 31 articles from the 2020 closed meetings.

Click here for The Knee Society Supplement