High Rates of Osteoarthritis Develop After ACL Surgery: An Analysis of 4108 Patients

This is a meta-analysis published about two months ago in Oct in the AJSM. First Published: 6 Oct 2017 Open access: NO Unfortunately this paper is not open access. Please find more information from the abstract below: Purpose/Hypothesis: “The purposes were to perform a meta-analysis to determine the prevalence of osteoarthritis after an ACL reconstruction,…

Does sports participation increase risk of osteoarthritis?

A systematic review and meta-analysis on BJSM last year Dec 2016 on the above topic. “What are the findings? There is low-quality or very low-quality evidence to support an increased association of sports participation and the occurrence of osteoarthritis (OA) in elite participants. There is very low-quality evidence to suggest that soccer, especially in the…