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Rationale: The Emergency Department (ED) typically serves as the front line for patients with acute fractures and tendon ruptures. Pain control for these patients is an essential task of the ED physician. With the advent of the opioid epidemic, ED physicians are becoming more inclined to prescribe non-narcotic pain medications such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Yet, the effects of NSAIDs on musculoskeletal healing are controversial. The few human studies examining the effects of NSAID use on fracture healing have provided conflicting results. Even less is known about the effects of NSAIDs on tendon healing as this information has largely been gleaned from rodent studies with contradictory findings. There has never been a large, prospective, randomized, double-blinded study to determine the effects of NSAIDs on healing after fractures or tendon ruptures. Here, I propose to pilot the first prospective, randomized, double-blinded study examining the effects of NSAID use on healing after tibia fractures and Achilles tendon ruptures. Aim 1 seeks to determine whether NSAID use is associated with an increased incidence of fracture nonunion and worse functional recovery six months following tibia fractures. I hypothesize that NSAID use after tibia fractures will be associated with an increased incidence of fracture nonunion and worse functional recovery. Aim 2 seeks to determine whether NSAID use is associated with worse functional recovery six months after Achilles tendon ruptures. I hypothesize that NSAID use after Achilles tendon ruptures will be associated with worse functional recovery. Significance: Emergency Department providers commonly prescribe NSAIDs for pain control following fractures and tendon injuries. However, the implications of this practice on bone and tendon healing are unknown. This proposal will pilot the first prospective, randomized, double-blinded study to determine whether NSAID use affects healing after tibia fractures and Achilles tendon ruptures. Results from this study will impact NSAID prescribing patterns for tibia fractures and Achilles tendon ruptures in the ED, either by demonstrating that they impair recovery and should be avoided, or that they need not be withheld as an effective non-narcotic form of pain control.
The investigators use existing resources to carry out this new technology, in accord with the standard of the patients, were randomized to traditional fracture balloon tibia fixation or arthroscopic reduction under angioplasty, the original data and data acquisition in a certain period of time corresponding to the patient, through statistical and epidemiological analysis and comparison of the method of professional data analysis discussion and experience according to the analysis results, the balloon angioplasty tibial arthroscopy and traditional open reduction and internal fixation for the clinical differences between postoperative recovery of tibial plateau articular surface reduction and joint function, and feedback the results to guide the clinical diagnosis and treatment.
The purpose is to study: 1. the frequency of vitamin D deficiency at patients with tibial fracture treated with an external ring fixator 2. if vitamin D supplement facilitates fracture healing 3. a possible relation between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of complications and the time of fracture healing