A clinico-radiological evaluation of functional outcome of proximal fibular osteotomy for medial compartment knee osteoarthritis: a new emerging technique

Background: The medial compartmental osteoarthritis (OA) knee is initially treated conservatively followed by lateral close/open medial wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO), or by unicompartmental or total knee replacement (UKR/TKR). Though HTO and UKR/TKR yield good results but are technically more demanding and are fraught with risk of complications, moreover replacement may not be the treatment of choice for younger patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of proximal fibular osteotomy (PFO), a minimally invasive procedure minus risks associated with HTO/TKR.Methods: Thirty-eight patients, 15 males and 23 females with a mean age of 54.46 years (range, 35 to 80 years) underwent PFO for OA knee and were followed for a mean period of 8.63 months (range 6 to 12 months).Results: After PFO all patients experienced immediate significant relief in medial knee pain with improved walking distance. Postoperatively, all patients showed radiological improvement in femorotibial angle (FTA), medial/lateral joint space ratio.Conclusions: PFO is safe, minimally invasive technique with minimal complications. It gives immediate relief of medial knee pain with improved function of joint

Customized sorting and packaging machine

India is a country which has a cornerstone of agriculture. And as it comes to fruit/vegetable sorting and packaging in India, human labor has been a vital part. With manual hand picking, it is a very laborious task to classify the quality of fruits/vegetables and simultaneously pack them. One leading-edge technology for the fulfilment of this purpose is ‘Image Processing’ technology which is extremely fast and cost-efficient. Our whole idea revolves around the fact that each fruit will be inspected, sort and simultaneously packed. For the same, a low cost automated mechatronic system has designed consisting of a solitary mechanical arrangement, which is controlled and synchronized through electronic components. Fruits/vegetables are sorted as high-quality and low-quality on the basis of physical appearance and weight. For this, a suitable algorithm is designed using the Open CV library. And the sorting is done using Arduino Uno and Raspberry pi. Hence the aim is to develop a sorting and packaging facility that can be established at the very root level itself which will be economically compact and accurate and will give more justice to farmers