Editorial Commentary: Arthroscopic Treatment of Femoroacetabular Impingement Yields Long-Term Patient Satisfaction.

Long-term outcomes for arthroscopic surgery to treat hip femoroacetabular impingement syndrome show acceptable patient-reported outcomes and durability (even on the basis of the early days of hip arthroscopy without capsular closure or labral reconstruction). Today, with modern hip arthroscopy and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome treatment including capsular closure, labral tear treatment, and refined indications, durability in terms of avoidance of conversion to total hip replacement is also expected. The advances in hip arthroscopy over the past 20 years have been breathtaking.

Editorial Commentary: Sexual Function Improves After Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement.

Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome can cause pain and difficulty with sexual activity. Arthroscopic treatment of femoroacetabular impingement can improve a patient's sexual health, as seen by improvement in patient-reported outcomes. This correlates with improved quality-of-life scores.

Editorial Commentary: A Steep Learning Curve for Hip Arthroscopy? I Literally Don't Know What This Means Anymore.

Fluoroscopy usage is a common component of hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement. A surgeon's usage of fluoroscopy (and the subsequent radiation exposure) can decrease over time, as that surgeon gets comfortable with a technique. However, techniques can and usually do change as a surgeon gets increasing experience, and fluoroscopic usage may increase or decrease with different techniques.

The Spin Move: A Reliable and Cost-Effective Gowning Technique for the 21st Century.

Operating room efficiency (ORE) and utilization are considered one of the most crucial components of quality improvement in every hospital. We introduced a new gowning technique that could optimize ORE. The Spin Move quickly and efficiently wraps a surgical gown around the surgeon's body.

Nirschl surgical technique for concomitant lateral and medial elbow tendinosis: a retrospective review of 53 elbows with a mean follow-up of 11.7 years.

Background: Combined lateral elbow tendinosis (tennis elbow) and medial elbow tendinosis (golfer's elbow) can be a disabling condition that, if unresponsive to nonoperative treatments, may be effectively treated surgically. The authors are not aware of any study that reports the outcome of a combined operation for lateral and medial elbow tendinosis (country club elbow) performed in the same operative setting.

Hypothesis: Combined surgical treatment of country club elbow in the same operative setting has similar outcomes to those seen in the literature for single operative procedures.

Iontophoretic administration of dexamethasone sodium phosphate for acute epicondylitis. A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study.

Background: A better treatment modality is needed to control the pain of medial or lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow).

Hypothesis: Dermal iontophoretic administration of dexamethasone sodium phosphate will be significantly more effective in controlling pain than a placebo in patients with medial or lateral elbow epicondylitis.

Study Design: Randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study.