Arthroscopy News

Although reduced reimbursement for acromioplasty has negatively impacted me financially, it has not impacted my patients.

The value of an acromioplasty, or subacromial decompression, is controversial and currently not supported as routine or essential for value-based care to manage impingement syndrome or rotator cuff disease symptoms.

Surgeons have performed acromioplasty to reduce pain and prevent rotator cuff disease progression since the 1970s. However, in the past decade, a number of randomized trials have brought the appropriate use of acromioplasty into question.

Investigators found “meniscal symptoms,” such as catching or locking, have no association with differential pain outcomes after surgery vs. physical therapy in patients with meniscal tears and knee osteoarthritis.

Radiographic factors, such as preoperative to postoperative changes in alpha angle, anterior offset and head-neck ratio, were associated with failure of revision hip arthroscopy, according to published results.

Patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome had improved squat performance and sagittal plane range of motion after hip arthroscopy, according to results presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

A micro-anchor skin closure device [BandGrip] produces significantly faster orthopedic incision closure times than sutures, according to published results.

Durect Corporation has announced the FDA approval of Posimir, a post-surgical, non-opioid local analgesic for patients who undergo arthroscopic subacromial decompression surgery, according to a press release.

Published results showed a strong association between patient-reported knee symptoms and the burden and severity of underlying cartilage damage rather than with specific meniscal pathology.

A 71-year-old woman sustained a fall onto her anterior left knee. Following this, she reports having 10 months of subjective instability during activities of daily living before seeking orthopedic evaluation.