Return to Sport After Arthroscopic Capsular Repair in Elite Baseball Players.

Background: Chronic attritional midsubstance capsular tears arising from repetitive throwing stress are a rare but important source of pain and dysfunction in elite baseball players; however, little is known regarding outcomes after arthroscopic capsular repair.

Purpose: To evaluate the patient-reported outcomes and return-to-sport (RTS) rates after arthroscopic capsular repair in elite baseball players.

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

A Cost-Minimization Analysis of Intraoperative Costs in Arthroscopic Bankart Repair, Open Latarjet, and Distal Tibial Allograft.

Background: The optimal surgical treatment of anterior shoulder instability remains controversial.

Hypothesis: (1) Implants and facility-related costs are the primary drivers of variation in direct costs between arthroscopic Bankart and Latarjet procedures, and (2) distal tibial allograft (DTA) is more costly than Latarjet as a function of the graft expense.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3.

The critical acromial point: the anatomic location of the lateral acromion in the critical shoulder angle.

Background: Acromioplasty has been proposed as a means of altering elevated critical shoulder angles (CSAs). We aimed to localize the critical acromion point (CAP) responsible for the acromial contribution of the CSA and determine whether resection of the CAP can alter the CSA to a normal range.

Methods: The CAP and 3-dimensional (3D) CSAs were determined on 3D computed tomography reconstructions of 88 cadaveric shoulders and compared with corresponding CSAs on digitally reconstructed radiographs.