Arthroscopy News

Published results showed patients with shoulder impingement syndrome who underwent arthroscopic subacromial decompression had no clinically relevant improvements at 5-year follow-up compared with diagnostic arthroscopy or exercise therapy.

Arthroscopic matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation for articular cartilage defects of the knee may offer positive, long-lasting results with limited failures or reinterventions, according to published results.

Patients who received ibuprofen required less opiate medication 1 week after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, but had similar pain scores at 6 weeks compared with patients who received placebo, according to a recent study.

Arthroscopic osteocapsular arthroplasty for elbow contracture led to an increase in motion, good to excellent outcomes and good long-term survivorship, according to results from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting.

Shift in appropriate site of service

A 19-year-old, otherwise healthy, right-handed male college football player sustained a left posterior elbow dislocation after a fall on an outstretched hand during practice.

In the 1990s, with advancements in technology and greater patient demand, physicians began to shift from performing surgical procedures in a hospital or ASC to an office-based setting.

Use of perioperative acetaminophen significantly decreased overall opioid consumption and improved pain control following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, according to results.

Results showed conversion to total knee arthroplasty or failure due to aseptic loosening were more than twice as likely to occur in patients who underwent knee arthroscopy within 2 years prior to unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.

Healio LIVE announced Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, which was scheduled for January 2021 in Maui, Hawaii, will be rescheduled to later in the year.