Arthroscopy News

Patients continued to experienced sleep disturbance at 24 months after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, especially patients who used narcotic pain medication, according to results.

Recently published results showed brake reaction time among patients who underwent hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement was no different compared with preoperative times or those of control patients.

TORONTO — At the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Benedict U. Nwachukwu, MD, MBA, said that overall, hip arthroscopy had little impact on National Football League (NFL) athletes’ performance and most players could return to play in 6 months after surgery.

TORONTO — After patients scheduled to undergo arthroscopic rotator cuff repair viewed a 2-minute video and received a fact sheet preoperatively, they used less narcotics for pain and had lower pain scores postoperatively than patients who did not receive this education prior to surgery, according to a presenter at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

TORONTO — At the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, many hundreds of people heard Jonathan F. Dickens, MD, present results of and discuss his study published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine entitled, “The effect of subcritical bone loss and exposure on recurrent instability after arthroscopic Bankart repair in intercollegiate American football.” What was different from usual scientific meeting presentations, however, was only a fraction of those who heard Dickens’ presentation were in the room at the time.

Click here to read the Cover Story, “Patients who never make it back after ACL injury present opportunities, challenges.”

In a 2015 publication, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine reported 100,000 to 250,000 ACL ruptures occur annually, and most occur during sporting activities, such as basketball, soccer, skiing and football. Despite advances in ACL surgery, some patients never make it back to sport or usual function. This can be due to technical failure with the treatment or other circumstances, sources told Orthopedics Today.

Among shoulders treated with arthroscopic Bankart repair, investigators found nearly 30% also had capsular lesions and these correlated with postoperative recurrent instability.

A recently published study a valid and reliable patient-derived survey that a spectrum of patients’ preoperative expectations when undergoing hip surgery.