Latarjet yielded high return to play rate among young athletes with shoulder instability
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Key takeaways:
- Young contact athletes who underwent Latarjet for shoulder instability reported a 4% complication rate and 3% reoperation rate.
- Overall, 93% of patients reported improved quality of life postoperatively.
LAS VEGAS — Results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed a high rate of contact athletes with shoulder instability were able to return to play after undergoing a Latarjet procedure.
Julie Y. Bishop, MD, and colleagues retrospectively collected demographic, clinical and patient-reported outcomes among 67 contact athletes (72 shoulders) aged 35 years and younger who underwent Latarjet for anterior shoulder instability between 2018 and 2022.
“We did a chart review of all 72 shoulders, and all of them had a minimum of 6 months follow-up,” Bishop said. “We were able to contact 46 patients or 51 shoulders, so 71% of the cohort, by phone, and the average follow-up of those patients was 2.1 years.”
When reviewing both the 67 patients with 6-month chart review and 46 patients who were reached by phone, Bishop noted patients had a complication rate of 4% and a reoperation rate of 3%.
“When we looked at our return to play numbers, we had an overall 76% return to play. And of those that returned, 86% stated that they returned at the same level or better than before,” Bishop said.
Among the 24% of patients who did not return to play, 11 patients stated they aged out of the sport, 10 patients reported fear of further injury, three patients reported apprehension or fear of recurrent instability without a frank instability event and one patient had a recurrent instability that led to revision, according to Bishop.
“When we looked at quality of life, overall, 93% reported that the procedure improved their quality of life and only a small percentage said that they were slightly worse or much worse,” Bishop said.
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Sridharan M, et al. Paper 234. Presented at: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. March 7-11, 2023; Las Vegas.
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