Successful Outcomes and Return to Sport After Arthroscopic Bankart Repair in National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Football League Football Players.

Objective: To characterize recurrent instability, return to sport (RTS), and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after arthroscopic Bankart repair for acute traumatic anterior shoulder instability in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Football League (NFL) football players.

Design: Case series.

Setting: Orthopaedic and sports medicine clinic.

Bankart Repair Using Modern Arthroscopic Technique.

As technology continues to improve, surgeons must regularly re-evaluate techniques to improve efficacy and outcomes. The Bankart repair for shoulder instability has evolved from open reconstruction to minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques, which have the benefit of less pain and morbidity. This technical description and video present a modern arthroscopic technique for Bankart repair used at our institution with high success in an athletic population.

Outcomes After Arthroscopic Bankart Repair in Adolescent Athletes Participating in Collision and Contact Sports.

Background: Literature on arthroscopic stabilization in adolescent patients participating in collision and contact sports is limited, as most studies include adolescents within a larger sample group comprised primarily of adults.

Purpose: To review the outcomes of arthroscopic Bankart repair for anterior shoulder instability in an adolescent population participating in collision and contact sports.

Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4.

Biomechanical Comparison of Parallel and Crossed Suture Repair for Longitudinal Meniscus Tears.

Background: Longitudinal meniscus tears are commonly encountered in clinical practice. Meniscus repair devices have been previously tested and presented; however, prior studies have not evaluated repair construct designs head to head. This study compared a new-generation meniscus repair device, SpeedCinch, with a similar established device, Fast-Fix 360, and a parallel repair construct to a crossed construct.

Outcomes of Bankart Repairs Using Modern Arthroscopic Technique in an Athletic Population.

Purpose: To report a large number of highly active patients who underwent arthroscopic Bankart repair at our institution over the last decade.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients who underwent primary and revision arthroscopic Bankart repairs using bioabsorbable anchors was performed. Outcome measures included recurrence of dislocation, American Shoulder and Elbow Scores (ASES), Rowe, visual analog scale (VAS), return to sports, and satisfaction scores.

Biomechanical comparison of arthroscopic repair constructs for radial tears of the meniscus.

Background: Radial tears of the meniscus represent a challenging clinical scenario because benign neglect and partial meniscectomy have both been shown to have negative biomechanical and long-term clinical consequences.

Hypothesis: Complex suture repair constructs have higher failure loads and stiffness values compared with simple constructs.

Study Design: Controlled laboratory study.

Anatomical parameters of subaxial percutaneous transfacet screw fixation based on the analysis of 50 computed tomography scans: Clinical article.

Object: Cervical transfacet screw placement has been described in the literature. Although the technique shows promise for percutaneous application, parameters for screw placement have not been well delineated. This study used reconstructed CT scans with imaging software to assess the feasibility of percutaneous transfacet screw placement, analyzing potential entry angles, transfacet lengths, and sex differences at each subaxial level.

Intra-articular knee mass in a 51-year-old woman.

A 51-year-old woman presented with moderate knee pain refractory to conservative measures. Radiographs revealed a well-defined, but irregularly-shaped ovoid soft tissue density at the posterior superior aspect of the infrapatellar fat pad of Hoffa. On magnetic resonance imaging, the mass was mildly heterogeneous and had intermediate signal in the proton density series and mixed signal intensity on the T2-weighted images.