Author Interviews, Orthopedics / 12.07.2013

obesity and living kidney donationMedicalResearch.com Interview with: Mark V. Paterno PT, PhD, MBA, SCS, ATC Coordinator of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy Associate Professor, Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center Acting Scientific Director, Division of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 10001 Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039 MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings of the study? Dr. Paterno: Our study suggests that young patients (average age 16 y/o) who return to pivoting and cutting sports after Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction are 6 times more likely to suffer a second ACL injury than an individual with no prior history of ACL injury.  In addition, females after ACL reconstruction may be more likely to injury their opposite limb than actually re-injure the same limb they initially hurt.  Finally, when you look at the results of this 2 year outcome study in conjunction with the 1 year outcomes we published last year, it would appear that the greatest risk of suffering a second ACL injury is within the first several months after returning to sports.
Author Interviews, CT Scanning, Mayo Clinic, Medical Imaging, Orthopedics / 17.04.2013

MedicalResearch.com:  Katrina N. Glazebrook, MB, ChB Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 MedicalResearch.com:  Why did you do the study? Dr. Glazebrook: We felt CT was being underutilized for evaluation of knee injuries. The utility of CT has been well documented in the assessment of fractures, but little attention has been made on soft tissue evaluation. CT now has high spatial resolution with very thin reconstructions in any desirable plane, and we have previously noted that this allowed injured soft tissue structures such as cruciate ligaments to be well visualized [presented at Society of Skeletal Radiology meeting March 2013]. We had determined in that prior study that the best reconstruction plane to evaluate both normal and torn anterior cruciate ligaments was the oblique sagittal plane parallel to the lateral femoral condyle as routinely used in MRI imaging of the knee The soft tissue window, single energy bone removal and Dual energy bone removal were the best reconstructions to determine the presence or absence of ACL disruption The bone removal techniques removed the distracting bone so the soft tissue structures were more apparent.