Sports Medicine News

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.

Advances in modern instrumentation may allow a surgeon to recommend an earlier return to sports for a patient after fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, according to results of a recently published study.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a study analyzing in vivo human ACL graft motion during activities of daily living, researchers found no significant differences at 6 weeks and 1 year postoperatively between reconstructions performed with either bone-tendon-bone or hamstring autograft with respect to graft motion within bone tunnels.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Results from a prospective study of patients who underwent a patella-stabilizing procedure that included trochleoplasty for the treatment of recurrent lateral patella dislocation showed most patients reported poor preoperative quality of life and had stable postoperative pain scores.

Compared with conventional partial meniscectomy preserving whole meniscal thickness, no additional adverse effects were found with decreases in meniscal thickness after partial meniscectomy for horizontal tear on functional and radiographic outcomes, despite narrowing of the joint space, according to study results.

My first Healio.com/Orthopedics blog is to introduce and describe the STOP Sports Injuries program. Under the direction and leadership of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the STOP Sports Injuries program was developed during the past 4 to 5 years as a comprehensive public outreach program. The program focuses on the importance of sports safety, specifically as it relates to overuse and trauma injuries in youth sports, for some 29 different sports.

In a recently published study, researchers found ACL deficiency was able to be reliably diagnosed by data stemming from internal sensors when attached to the lower extremity of the patient.

Recently published data indicated interobserver and intraobserver reliability was nearly perfect when measurements for tibial tubercle-trochlear groove distance and trochlear dysplasia index were taken by either an orthopedic surgeons or a radiologist.

LYON, France — In a retrospective cohort study of adolescent patients who underwent ACL reconstruction, findings linked surgical delay with lower scores for activities of daily living and greater rates of specific associated tears and lesions.

LYON, France — After ACL reconstruction, further ACL injury rates were high, and injury occurred more commonly in the contralateral ACL than the reconstructed ACL graft, according to results of a study presented here.