EDITORIAL

• Building resilience is not for the faint-hearted

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

• Casting out the truth: why ITT alone fails in trials that compare surgery to casting

SHOULDER AND ELBOW

• Infection prevention in shoulder arthroplasty: current practices among South African orthopaedic surgeons

SPINE

• Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation as a treatment for chronic back pain: knowledge, attitude and practices of South African spine surgeons
• A retrospective review of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in a spinal unit in Cape Town, South Africa

TRAUMA AND GENERAL ORTHOPAEDICS

• Functional outcomes of patients with direct vs indirect fixation of tibial plateau fractures with posterior column involvement

ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY AND INFECTIONS

• Diagnostic discordance between MRI and histology in suspected malignant transformation of osteochondromas: a retrospective review
• Susceptibility and molecular characterisation of Cutibacterium acnes from patients with bone and joint infection samples in South Africa

CURRENT CONCEPTS REVIEW

• Surgical management of the hallux valgus: a current concepts review