Sports Medicine News

ORLANDO, Fla. — Rotator cuff repair was found to be highly effective in elderly athletes ages 70 years and older, improving function, reducing pain and helping patients return to sports, according to study findings presented here.

Patients who underwent ACL repair and had participated regularly in sports preoperatively were found to have difficulty returning to their previous level of play by 2 years postoperatively.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Patients treated surgically for acute proximal hamstring ruptures had better lower extremity function outcomes, as well as a higher chance of returning to pre-injury activities, compared with patients who were treated non-surgically, according to the findings from a study presented here.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Researchers observed an increase in the incidence of ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction in young athletes between the ages of 15 and 19 years old, according to study results.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Research presented here indicated NCAA athletes who underwent lower extremity surgery prior to college were at a higher risk of undergoing orthopedic and knee surgery in same extremity during college, especially those involved in overhead sports, demonstrating rehabilitation may be inadequate or athletes did not fully return to function after surgery.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Among patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair reinforced with an absorbable biologic scaffold for treatment of full-thickness tears, researchers observed a low retear rate, along with improved function and clinical outcome scores.

ORLANDO, Fla. — There was no significant differences in stability and 5-year graft re-tear or failure rates between patients with equal to or greater than 6° of hyperextension who underwent ACL reconstruction using patellar tendon autograft and patients with equal to or less than 3° of hyperextension, according to data presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, here.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Award-winning research using data from the MOON study indicates most meniscal tears left in situ at the time of ACL reconstruction do not undergo isolated meniscal reoperation at 6 years, and tears that occur on the medial rather than the lateral compartment are more likely to later be treated with meniscectomy or repair.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Although a retrospective review of prospectively collected data for 91 shoulders undergoing revision anterior shoulder stabilization performed with either arthroscopic revision stabilization or Latarjet found satisfactory results with both procedures, recurrent instability rates were 19% with arthroscopic revision and 7% with Latarjet.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Research presented here indicated surgeons changed their practice patterns based on information about risk factors for retear after ACL reconstruction, which lead to a significant decrease in patients’ odds for retear.