How Much Does Knee Surgery Really Benefit?
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How Much Does Knee Surgery Really Benefit?
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 |
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A study published late last month in The New England Journal of Medicine is making provocative questions about how best to medicate a torn anterior cruciate ligament. For the study, employees from Lund University in Sweden recruited 121 young adults who had damaged their A.C.L.’s. The volunteers, between 18 and 35, were physically active and many were aggressive athletes. They definitely, rather fearlessly, to be randomly designated to one of two groups and accept thoroughly various treatments for their ruptured A.C.L.’s. The first group began physical healing treatment and then underwent surgical reconstruction of the ligament, well chosen by many people to be the best option for hurt athletes. The second group received only physical healing treatment, with the alternative to have the surgical procedure later. Twenty-three subjects of that group did eventually have the surgery. (For those fortunate enough not to be subjectively familiar with A.C.L. medical procedure, remodeling involves replacing the damaged ligament with tissue from elsewhere in your own leg or from a cadaver.)
Over two years, the hurt knees were valuated using a comprehensive numerical score that rated agony, function during activity and other measures. At the time of the primary injury, the knee also had been scored. At the end of the two years, both groups showed great recovery. The scores for the surgically remodeled knees had risen by 39.2 points. The scores for the more conservatively treated knees also had risen, by 39.4 points. In other words, the outcomes were basically identical. Despite a widespread belief that surgery leads to a stronger knee, the results showed that surgically reconstructing the A.C.L. as soon as possible after the tear “was not superior” to more conservative treatment, the study’s authors wrote. The research suggest, the authors concluded, that “more than half the A.C.L. reconstructions” currently being managed on injured knees “could be avoided without adversely affecting outcomes.”
This possibility should reverberate across playing fields nationwide, where, at the brief time period, preseason high school, collegiate and adult-league sports practices are under way, with a concomitant arise in A.C.L. tears. By one evaluation, as many as 1 in every 556 fit, active people will tear an A.C.L. – particularly if they participate in sports that involve frequent pivoting and landing, like soccer, football, tennis, skiing and basketball. At the same time, the urge to treat the injury with surgery appears to be growing. The “knowledge among most surgeons and patients is that surgery is a ‘must,’ at least if you desire to go back into an active lifestyle,” the Swedish authors of the study e-mailed in response to questions.
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