Establishing a new practice as a team physician.

The role of a team physician is an integral part of establishing a new practice. Regardless of the type of practice one enters, the team physician role provides an opportunity to establish an early referral base to build the foundation of a successful practice. Although this comes with great responsibility and significant time commitments, the joy of developing your practice doing what you enjoy most, sports medicine, makes these drawbacks less perceptible.

All-inside meniscal repair using a new flexible, tensionable device.

Background: A new generation of flexible all-inside meniscal repair devices is available, but clinical studies with these devices are lacking.

Hypothesis: The RapidLoc has an intermediate-term meniscal healing rate that is equivalent to literature reports of inside-out suture technique in patients undergoing concurrent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

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