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Arthroscopic iliac crest bone grafting in recurrent anterior shoulder instability: minimum 5-year clinical and radiologic follow-up
Watch this video from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin presented by Elisabeth Böhm, Marvin Minkus, Philipp Moroder and Markus Scheibel on the mid-term outcomes following arthroscopic iliac crest bone grafting for patients with recurrent anterior shoulder instability. The open access full text article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-05986-7
Read MorePosterior bony Bankart bridge repair technique
The arthroscopic posterior bony Bankart bridge technique leads to reliable postoperative shoulder function and restores shoulder stability with high patient satisfaction and low complication rate in this small patient cohort for the treatment of posterior bony Bankart lesions. Watch the video by by Lucca Lacheta, Brandon Goldenberg, Marilee Horan and
Read MoreReturn to sports bridge program improves outcomes, decreases ipsilateral knee re‐injury and contralateral knee injury rates post‐ACL reconstruction
The authors found that supplementing primary ACL reconstruction and standard physical therapy with a return to sports bridge program prior to release to unrestricted sports performance was effective at improving patient outcomes and decreasing ipsilateral knee re-injury and contralateral knee injury rates. The article can be reached at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-06162-7
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Best Papers Awards 2018-19
Confined, not stagnant…we carry on! KSSTA honour our mainstay, our AUTHORS, with the KSSTA Best Papers Awards 2018-19! Among many brilliant studies submitted and accepted in the past 2 years, we would like to present the winners: Christoph Becher et al., Arthroscopic Microfracture vs. Arthroscopic Autologous Matrix-Induced Chondrogenesis for the
Read MoreBest reviewers of 2019
We happily present the KSSTA Best Reviewers for 2019 and thank them for their excellent contribution and great work: Riccardo Compagnoni (Italy), Daniel Guenther (Germany) and Kanto Nagai (Japan)
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ISSN 0942-2056 Print
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