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The Orthopedist publishes all the articles under the Open Access model to make them freely available for researchers and scholars. The Orthopedist accepts all original articles, reviews, case reports, clinical images, commentaries, perspectives and more.

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The Orthopedist is a peer reviewed open access journal aims to publish significant and up-to-date articles within the fields of experimental and clinical orthopedics, orthopedic surgery, orthopedic imaging, and medical radiology. The Orthopedist covers all the aspects of orthopedics from clinical & medical fields, their mechanisms; recent developments in orthopedic therapy; general diagnosis; laboratory diagnosis; diagnostic and experimental orthopedics; orthopedic surgery; and diagnosis, treatments & therapies.

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Editorial Board

Changjiao Sun - The Orthopedist

Changjiao Sun

Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University
China

Bin Liu - The Orthopedist

Bin Liu

Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences,Southwest University
China

Richard Lass - The Orthopedist

Richard Lass

University Hospital of Orthopaedics Vienna WaehringerGuertel 18-20 1090 Vienna
Austria

George Edward Kiwerski - The Orthopedist

George Edward Kiwerski

University of Warsaw
Poland

Kawtar NASSAR - The Orthopedist

Kawtar NASSAR

Medicine and Pharmacy University, Ibn Rochd Hospital of Casablanca
Morocco

Konstantinos Natsis - The Orthopedist

Konstantinos Natsis

Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece

Feifei Pu - The Orthopedist

Feifei Pu

Department of Orthopedics, Wuhan Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Wuhan
China

Robert Węgłowski - The Orthopedist

Robert Węgłowski

The Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw

Poland

Yongjian Qi - The Orthopedist

Yongjian Qi

Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
China

Anderson Geremias Macedo - The Orthopedist

Anderson Geremias Macedo

University of Marília, UNIMAR
Brazil

Mingli Feng - The Orthopedist

Mingli Feng

Orthopedic Department of Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University
China

Zafar Rasheed - The Orthopedist

Zafar Rasheed

Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Medicine,
Qassim University,

Saudi Arabia

Articles

Orthopedist. 2020;1(1):Ortho-01-1008 | Open Access

Isolated Polyarthritis, Paraneoplasic Origin, Reveling an Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Kawtar Nassar, Soumaya Ousehal and Saadia Janani 

Paraneoplastic syndromes are a group of diseases related to a known or occult neoplasia with no direct anatomical relation to it, and disappear after treatment of the tumor, most often malignant. Rheumatic and systemic paraneoplastic symptoms are quite rare and can be classified into articular, neuromuscular, cutaneous, vascular and various. The interval between the onset of rheumatic signs and the ... Read More

LETTER TO EDITOR Updated May 11, 2020   PDF

Orthopedist. 2020;1(1):Ortho-01-1007 | Open Access

Stepped Surgical Treatment of Severe Knee Osteoarthritis

Feng Mingli

Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common joint disease of middleaged and old people, which leads to the loss of walking ability. KOA is a chronic degenerative disease, but there is no radical treatment. Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is currently recognized as an effective treatment for end-stage KOA. However, a study in the United States found that at present, about one ... Read More

EDITORIAL Updated Mar 29, 2020   PDF

Orthopedist. 2020;1(1):Ortho-01-1006 | Open Access

The Strength of Epitendinous Tendon Repairs and when a Core Suture is Needed

Elif Ozyurekoglu and Laxminarayan Bhandari

Tendon lacerations can be treated either surgically or non-surgically. Most scientists agree that over 60% of the tendon must be lacerated before a surgical repair is required. However, the formation of a 2-millimeter gap in a tendon from a laceration cause adhesions and triggering, permanently minimizing the mechanical ability of the tendon. This research tested the strength of flexor tendon Epitendinous ... Read More

RESEARCH ARTICLE Updated Feb 13, 2020   PDF

Orthopedist. 2019;1(1):Ortho-01-1005 | Open Access

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Injections in Rheumatoid Arthritis Knee Joints

Evija Stumbra Stumberga

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is characterized by dysregulated inflammatory processes in the synovium of the joint. In RA disease course many patients have synovitis in small joints of wrists and feet, along with large joint degenerative disease that manifests or presents with the destruction of both cartilaginous and bony elements of the knee joint. For long-time medication for intra-articular ... Read More

CASE REPORT Updated Jan 09, 2020   PDF

Orthopedist. 2019;1(1):Ortho-01-1004 | Open Access

Patient Satisfaction in Spine Surgery

Thamer A Hamdan, Darren Lui and Saad Jumah Abdul Salam

SHORT COMMUNICATION Updated Jan 07, 2020   PDF