Increased Carrying Angle is a Risk Factor for Nontraumatic Ulnar Neuropathy at the Elbow

Abstract

Level III, diagnostic study. See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

Comparative Study of Carrying Angle in South Indian Population

“…From our results, we found no difference between clinically measured CA vs. radiologically measured CA in both genders belonging to 16-25 years. Our findings are consistent with few studies done by others [8][9][10]. The difference in CA values was reported which could possibly be explained by the different methodology adopted by the authors in deriving the CA [1].…”

“…Comparison of CA between clinical and radiological measurements: Few authors conducted studies to measure CA by both clinical and radiological methods and concluded that there was very minimal difference of ±1° or no significant difference in CA between both the methodologies [8][9][10].…”

Comparative Study of Carrying Angle between Dominant and Non Dominanat Limb in Kashmiri Population

“…1,2 The rate of increment in carrying angle for boys and girls is 0.42 and 0.60 per year, respectively. 3 Increase in the carrying angle may lead to elbow instability and pain during exercise or in throwing activities of sports, predispose to increased risk of elbow dislocation and fractures of distal humerus when falling on an outstretched hand. 4 In physiological conditions CA parameter varies according to age 5 , gender 6 , hyperextension of the elbow 7 , dominant upper limb 8 , anthropometric characteristics such as height and intertrochanteric distance 9 and can be measured by simple clinical and radiographic technique 10 Study aimed at comparison of data obtained by measuring CA by manual method between dominant and non dominant limb in age group 18 -30 years.…”

The role of simple elbow dislocations in cubitus valgus development in children

“…Radiologically it is referred to as the humero-ulnar angle [9]. The carrying angle is the angle between the centreline of the forearm and centreline of the arm when the elbow is fully extended and flexed at zero degrees and the wrist is in neutral position, and the forearm is in full supination [10]. The measurement was performed as described by Balasubramanian et al [4] when elbow joint was in full extension, with the forearm supinated and hand/wrist in neutral position using a goniometer.…”