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Can patients really participate in sport after high tibial osteotomy?
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PMID:  21409470     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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PURPOSE: The possibility to return to sporting activity can be an important consideration in the decision-making process in femorotibial osteoarthritis. We analyzed functional outcomes and sport participation in a continuous series of HTO and asked whether this procedure could match expectations in active and motivated patients. METHODS: We retrospectively investigated activities, sports participation, and the level of satisfaction in 139 patients with unilateral noncomplicated HTO. The study included 41 women and 98 men with a mean age of 59 years and a mean 50 months of follow-up. RESULTS: Eighty-seven patients (63%) reported that their knee was "normal," and eighty-six patients (62%) felt that their activities were limited by their knee. A total of 78 patients (56%) reported that they were as active as they expected to be before the intervention. Of these patients, 98% were satisfied. Of the patients who were not as active as they thought they would be, 51% were satisfied (P < 0.0001). The duration of preoperative pain, the age at evaluation, and the number of previous surgeries did not influence the subjective result. Among patients under 75 years, 28% regularly participated in strenuous sports, but 40% were motivated for these activities. 66% of the motivated patients regularly participated in at least one impact sport. CONCLUSION: This study shows that young motivated patients are able to resume strenuous activities following HTO. However, patients must be informed that they will typically not recover their pre-pathology level and that residual pain during strenuous sports is not exceptional. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic study, Level IV.
Authors:
Michel P Bonnin; Jean-Raphael Laurent; Frédéric Zadegan; Roger Badet; H A Pooler Archbold; Elvire Servien
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-3-16
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Title:  Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1433-7347     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
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Created Date:  2011-3-16     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  9314730     Medline TA:  Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Centre Orthopédique Santy, 24 Av Paul Santy, 69008, Lyon, France, bonnin.michel@gmail.com.
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