WHAT’S NEW IN SPORTS MEDICINE Knee Anterior Cruciate Ligament Double-bundle technique was associated with better visual analog scale pain scores and less instrumented anterior knee laxity based on a recent Level-I clinical study. There were no significant differences in terms of rotational control and subjective KOOS (Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score) and IKDC (International [...]

Tanezumab for the Treatment of Pain from Osteoarthritis of the Knee N Eng J Med. 2010 Oct 14; 363(18):1521-31. Epub 2010 Sep29 Lane NE, Schnitzer TJ, Birbara CA, Mokhtarani M, Shelton DL, Smith MD, Brown MT. Source:Department of Medicine, University of California at Davis Medical School, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. nelane@ucdavis.edu Summary: 450 patients (age range 40 to 75) with knee [...]

Oxinium or otherwise “oxidised zirconium” was suggested as a good bearing surface by  Bourne in his article in CORR 2005. These oxinium surfaces are derived from a zirconium base that is heated and then infused with oxygen, transforming the outermost layer into a ceramic shell This surface possibly combines the fracture resistance of metal, with [...]

Investigators at the University of  Nebraska Medical Centre developed a system to detect early inflammation and osteolysis associated with arthroplasty The study was published in the Molecular pharmaceuticals Journal by Ren et al.. They developed a polymer-based system — a N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymer-based optical imaging contrast agent (P-IRDye) — for imaging the inflammation that is associated [...]

Does Fresh Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation of Talar Osteochondral Defects Improve Function? Gregory C. Berlet MD, Christopher F. Hyer DPM, Terrence M. Philbin DO, Jodi F. Hartman MS, Michelle L. Wright MPH Clinical Research Online First – February , 2011 Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2011. doi: 10.1007/s11999-011-1813-2. In a study by Berlet et al., single bulk, fresh [...]

Osteochondritis dissecans is a condition of the joints that appears to affect subchondral bone primarily, with  secondary effects on articular cartilage Osteochondritis Dissecans of the knee has been a disorder in which proper treatment guidelines have not been established Several aetiologies like, family history, repetitive micro-trauma, growth disorders, and ischemia—have been proposed One study identified the [...]