VIDEO: Osteotomy may lead to high satisfaction in high-level athletes
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Key takeaways:
- About 50% to 65% of high-level athletes who underwent either a high tibial or distal femoral osteotomy returned to sport.
- Patients with a higher Tegner score returned to sport at lower rates.
DENVER — In this video, Michael J. Alaia, MD, discusses results that showed high tibial and distal femoral osteotomies may yield high satisfaction rates among high-level athletes.
According to Alaia, roughly 50% to 65% of high-level athletes in the study who underwent either a high tibial (n = 39) or distal femoral (n = 13) osteotomy were able to return to sport. However, Alaia said patients with a Tegner score greater than seven returned to sport at lower rates.
“Needless to say, they were happy that they had the surgery done because their pain was better, their symptoms were better, etc., but we still were not perfectly able to get them back to where we were hoping we could,” Alaia, professor of orthopedic surgery at NYU Langone Health, told Healio about results presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.
He added, “The study, although it showed positive results, is again a cautionary tale because we have to be critical in our counseling of these patients to let them know, yes, your symptoms are going to be better, but we still have not achieved perfection in getting people back to their former level of play before their symptoms started.”
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Alaia MJ, et al. Paper 31. Presented at: American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting; July 10-14, 2024; Denver.
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