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The authors present a case of a healthy 14-month-old child who fell onto a blunt-ended chopstick, the subsequent cerebrovascular accident, and the role of the osteopathic tenets thereafter.

Pediatric obesity is on the rise and, therefore, so is the risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. One way of assessing this risk is testing for insulin resistance, but without definitive guidelines in the literature, categorizing young patients’ risk can be difficult; the authors systematically reviewed 298 articles and found 51 different homeostasis model assessment cutoff values were used to classify patients as having insulin resistance. .

Although suture ligation is a common treatment for patients with postaxial polydactyly, surgical excision is an acceptable alternative. The case of a newborn with bilateral postaxial type B polydactyly is described with a literature review of treatment options.