Pekka Kannus

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data from the National Hospital Discharge Register on all patients 60 years or older who were admitted to Finnish hospitals from 1970 to 2002 for primary treatment of proximal humeral fractures.

TL;DR: It is suggested that effective prevention of hip fractures could be achieved by the diminution of the number and severity of falls of the elderly, and the severity of the falls (impacts on the greater trochanter) could be decreased by an external hip protector.

TL;DR: The playing arm's extra bone mineral, and thus increased bone strength, was mainly due to increased bone size and not due to a change in volumetric bone density, which may give new insight into conventional dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-based bone density measurements when interpreting the effects of exercise.

TL;DR: In both of the female player groups the structural adaptation of the humeral shaft to long‐term loading seemed to be achieved through periosteal enlargement of the bone cortex although this adaptation was clearly better in the young starters.

TL;DR: The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the human body and there has been a general increase in popularity of sporting activities, but the number and incidence of the Achilles tendon overuse injuries and complete, spontaneous ruptures has increased in the industrialized countries during the last decades.