Arthroscopy News

For the 13th straight year, Hospital for Special Surgery has been named the top hospital in the United States for orthopedic care, according to the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals 2022-2023” survey.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For patients with femoroacetabular impingement, surgical treatment of labral pathology with femoral osteoplasty yielded better long-term outcomes and survivorship compared with arthroscopy alone.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Results presented here showed female athletes with femoroacetabular impingement had significant improvements in patient-reported outcome scores and a high rate of return to sport after hip arthroscopy.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Higher Y-balance scores are associated with improved patient-reported outcomes after surgery for femoroacetabular impingement and may help determine readiness for return to sport, according to presented results.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — MRI prior to primary hip arthroscopy may not be as clinically useful as concordant history, physical exam and radiographs alone among young patients with femoroacetabular impingement, according to study data.

Exercise-based physical therapy remained noninferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy regarding self-reported knee function and should be the preferred treatment for patients with degenerative meniscal tears, according to results.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Miho J. Tanaka, MD, discussed acceptable variations and surgical techniques for medial patellofemoral complex reconstruction.

Early career sports medicine surgeons should expect to perform general, trauma and adult reconstruction cases, as results showed this surgeon population will perform more than 40% of their cases outside of the sports medicine specialty.

Minimally invasive procedures have flourished within orthopedic surgery during the past few decades as surgeons have continually sought out faster recovery times and improved clinical outcomes.

The addition of suprascapular nerve release did not provide significant improvements in functional outcomes or pain relief and may not be needed for patients undergoing rotator cuff tendon repair, according to published results.