Sports Medicine Patient-Reported Outcomes Fail to Meet National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Medical Association (AMA) Recommended Reading Levels.

Purpose: To evaluate the readability of commonly used patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in the sports medicine literature to determine if they meet the recommended reading levels set by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

Methods: A readability analysis was conducted on 26 PROMs commonly used in the sports medicine literature. Primary readability metrics used were the Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES) and the Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) Index.

Internet search analytics for shoulder arthroplasty: what questions are patients asking?

Background: Common questions about shoulder arthroplasty (SA) searched online by patients and the quality of this content are unknown. The purpose of this study is to uncover questions SA patients search online and determine types and quality of webpages encountered.

Methods: The "People also ask" section of Google Search was queried to return 900 questions and associated webpages for general, anatomic, and reverse SA.

Arthroscopic labral reconstruction using fascia lata allograft: shuttle technique and minimum two-year results.

The purpose of this study was to describe the shuttle technique of acetabular labral reconstruction using allograft fascia lata and report minimum two-year clinical outcomes in a prospective patient cohort. We present a shuttle technique to introduce and fixate the allograft, by which the need to fix the free end of the graft from inside the joint is avoided. Between October 2010 and March 2014, 693 hip arthroscopic surgeries were performed by the senior author.

A Characterization of Sensory and Motor Neural Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Hip Arthroscopic Surgery: Traction- and Portal Placement-Related Nerve Injuries.

Background: There is a paucity of prospectively collected data as they relate to nerve injuries after hip arthroscopic surgery. Studies describing the relationship of neurological injuries to portal placement and the duration and magnitude of traction force with regular and standardized patient follow-up protocols are limited.

Purpose/hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to characterize nerve deficits in a series of patients undergoing hip arthroscopic surgery as these deficits relate to axial traction and portal placement.