New procedure may reduce risk of re-injury for knee surgery patients

Orthopedic

New research has found that performing an extra procedure during ACL repair may help decrease the risk of re-injury in young patients, reports The London Free Press.

Three insights:

1. The added surgery, lateral extraarticular tenodesis, grafts a strip of tendon to the outside of the knee for extra stability was. This technique was commonly used in the 1950s and 1960s before doctors began entering the knee to fix ACLs directly.

2. The researchers studied 624 ACL repair patients over 2 years. Some patients received just the ACL reconstruction while others underwent both procedures.

3. The study, funded by the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, found promising long-term results in patients that received both procedures, despite a slight increase in short-term pain and muscle recovery.

"Two years post-op, we found the addition of the tenodesis reduced this incidence of problematic laxity and more importantly, reduced the risk of graft re-injury," said Alan Getgood, study co-author and orthopedic surgeon at Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in Ontario, Canada.

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