Recent research from the top orthopaedic journals — auto-curated from PubMed and refreshed throughout the day.
Stump K, Morar H, Aynaszyan S, et al
Lavu MS, Eghrari NB, Makineni PS, et al
Mo K, Sulieman A, Smith JS, et al
Prospective multicenter study. To determine the incidence of all-cause mortality after adult spinal deformity surgery. Patients undergoing adult spinal deformity surgery are often frail and the…
Joshi A, Schiedo RM, Bronheim RS, et al
Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. To re-evaluate vancomycin as a preventive measure for surgical site infection (SSI). Intrawound vancomycin powder is used to prevent SSIs in…
Krutko A, Kuzmin N, Baykov E, et al
An open-label, randomized, noninferiority clinical trial. To determine the effectiveness of the MIS-TLIF over the O-TLIF in patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis combined with low-grade…
Woodard T, Hills J, Parent S, et al
Retrospective cohort. To examine preoperative sagittal alignment using vertebral pelvic angles (VPA) in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). VPA describes sagittal spine shape accounting for…
Ito S, Nakashima H, Segi N, et al
Large multicenter prospective study. We aimed to develop and validate a novel machine learning-based prognostic scoring system for spinal metastases. Spinal metastases, common complications in…
Rizkallah M, Boubez G, Shen J, et al
Retrospective study. The aim of this study was to assess the outcomes of single-stage posterior transpedicular corpectomy with cement-based anterior column support for spinal metastasis at longer…
Wang X, Zhao X, Ma H
Kim HJ, Chang DG, Lenke LG, et al
Russo S, Sharma A, Vardanyan R, et al
Retrospective single-center imaging-based case-control study. To determine the association between cervical foraminal stenosis and adhesive capsulitis. Patients with cervical spondylosis often…
Caffard T, Arzani A, Verna B, et al
Retrospective study. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between severity and level of cervical central stenosis (CCS) and the fat infiltration (FI) of the cervical…
Karabacak M, Carr MT, Schupper AJ, et al
Retrospective, population-based cohort study. This study aimed to develop machine learning (ML) models to predict five-year and 10-year mortality in spinal and sacropelvic chordoma patients and…
Helenius L, Ahonen M, Syvänen J, et al
A prospective multi-center cohort study. This study evaluates the 10-year pulmonary function outcomes for patients with structural thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (Lenke curve types 1-4, 6)…
Ohyama S, Maki S, Kotani T, et al
Retrospective cohort study. To develop a machine learning (ML) model that predicts the progression of AIS using minimal radiographs and simple questionnaires during the first visit. Several factors…
Goodwin CR, Price M, Goodwin AN, et al
Retrospective review of prospective, multicenter, and international cohort study. To describe the effect of gender on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), clinical outcomes, and survival for…
Weinstein JN, Weeks W
Capobianco C, Schmidt-Bleek K, Haffner-Luntzer M, et al
In preclinical research focused on bone fracture repair, a significant gap exists in understanding and incorporating key variables that influence homeostasis and pathophysiological processes. Factors…
Barrera V, Treviño JH, Denton TT, et al
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) induces skeletal muscle damage through oxidative stress, impaired autophagy, and satellite cell (SC) dysfunction, ultimately compromising regenerative capacity and…
Hong CC, Pearce C, Calder J, et al
Guan S, Lu X, Liu C, et al
Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is common in trauma, challenging early diagnosis and treatment. An accurate ACS model is vital for its management. Most prior animal models have induced intrafascial…
Salmons HI, Fitzgerald K, LiArno S, et al
Femoral component surface roughness is a critical determinant of polyethylene wear in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Titanium nitride (TiN) ceramic surface coatings have been developed to improve…
Palafox-Castillo P, Chahla J, Cole BJ, et al
The Arthroscopy Association of North America, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and the Biologic Association convened the 2026 Biologics Research Think Tank on May 16, 2026, in…
Cognetti DJ
Arthroscopy has grown from a frontier of surgeon-led problem solving into a mature technological field shaped by surgical innovation, industry partnerships, patent attorneys, and corporate strategy.…
Fan D
To quantitatively analyze global arthroscopy patents, identify key development trends, and explore emerging technological directions. This study conducted a systematic patent search in the Lens…
Sardesai KS, Friedman L, Jesse JE, et al
Orthobiologics are a rapidly innovative field of musculoskeletal science and clinical care, aiding in sports medicine and joint preservation to improve biologic healing, modulate inflammation, and…
Rossi MJ, Salzler M
Arthroscopy aims to be the primary home for musculoskeletal biologics research. To this end, we introduce our Fourth Annual Musculoskeletal Biologics Special Issue with Guest Editor Brian Cole, M.D.,…
Macciacchera M, Nucci N, Hayes E, et al
To synthesize the existing literature on clinical outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures following primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) and lateral extra-articular…
Shi BY, Amini MH
Stiffness after rotator cuff repair is one of the most common sources of disability and one of the most common complications. Smoking, diabetes, Workers' compensation status, and traumatic tears are…
Hartman H, Lessiohadi N, Saharan S, et al
To determine outcomes following operative treatment of symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus (DLM) in pediatric patients. In March of 2024, a systematic review of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane…
Mowers CC, Jackson GR, McKinley MT, et al
To investigate the effect of donor-recipient sex mismatch on outcomes following osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCAT) of the knee, with a focus on graft survivorship, complications, and…
Kuhn JEJ
Hampstead W, Lovell R, Whalan M, et al
To identify and describe the biomechanical characteristics and football-specific contextual factors associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in professional women's football. A…
Tomás Rojas J, Menzemer J, Rashid MS, et al
Kunze KN, Forsythe B
Predicting risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and ACL graft rupture remains an elusive challenge, with a substantial and emerging body of literature attempting to elucidate the clinical…
Wang DY, Liu JX, Du XW, et al
To define the lateral femoral condylar angle (LFCA)-a parameter measuring condylar inclination-and assess its predictive capacity for primary and recurrent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries.…
Faith HD, Khan AM, Levy BA
Graft failure after knee ligament reconstruction persists despite decades of technical refinement in anterior cruciate ligament and posterior cruciate ligament surgery. Recently, attention has…
Lee KH, Chen KH, Tsai YW, et al
To evaluate the influence of medial and lateral posterior tibial slopes (MPTS and LPTS) on graft survival and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients undergoing bicruciate ligament…
Kahana-Rojkind AH, Cohen MF, Strok MJ, et al
To evaluate midterm patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and rates of return to sports of bilateral primary hip arthroscopy in high-level athletic populations with minimum 5-year follow-up and to compare…
Rosinsky PJ, Gilat R
Outcome reporting in sports medicine has become increasingly sophisticated, yet sophistication alone does not ensure clinical usefulness. The value, or utility, of an outcome measure lies in its…
Ko FC, Almarza AJ, Allen KD, et al
Luxenburg D, Khan AM, Levy BA
Anterior cruciate ligament graft selection requires an individualized approach and shared decision-making based on age, activity level, and numerous other patient- and knee-specific factors.…
Konyves A
Medial meniscus posterior root tears in the varus knee present a challenge of balancing biological repair with biomechanical correction. Recent studies show that combining high tibial osteotomy with…
Eliasberg CD, Shamrock A, James EW, et al
To compare differences in donor site morbidity (DSM) following quadriceps tendon (QT) autograft and bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) at 2…
Dzidzishvili L, Gerhold C, Poulson TA, et al
To evaluate healing rates observed on second-look arthroscopy (SLA) in patients with medial meniscus posterior root tears treated with isolated high tibial osteotomy (HTO) or HTO combined with root…
Hali NZ, Punjani H, Tahir M, et al
To compare tibial suspensory fixation (TSF) with tibial interference screw (TIS) in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction for clinical and radiological outcomes. A systematic review was…
Líbano Monteiro H, Antunes M, Sarmento M, et al
Stemless implants were introduced to prevent some of the stem-related complications associated with the total shoulder arthroplasty. Although general requirements for receiving these implants include…
Beleckas CM, Schodlbauer DF, Mousad AD, et al
Reports of equivalent patient-reported outcomes between anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) have contributed to a continued preference of rTSA.…
Lopiz Y, Alcobía-Díaz B, Coderch J, et al
Proximal humerus fractures (PHFs) are among the most common fractures in elderly patients, yet there is insufficient evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine the most…
Jomaa M, Ingoe H, Hollman F, et al
Primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis in young patients poses challenging treatment decisions. Arthroplasty options have different failure profiles and implant survivorship patterns. This registry…
Barret H, Garret J, Favard L, et al
There are some major controversies surrounding the use and longevity of pyrocarbon interposition shoulder arthroplasty (PISA). The objective of this study was to investigate the long-term survival…
Wiemer F, Coghlan JA, Bell SN
Acromial stress fractures can occur after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA). We performed this study to assess the incidence, risk factors, characteristics, and outcome of acromial stress…
Ranieri R, Cointat C, Lacouture-Suarez JD, et al
Posterior humeral subluxation (PHS) in B2 and B3 glenoid is a cause of asymmetric long-term stress on the glenoid and the potential reason for glenoid loosening in anatomic total shoulder…
Cooper I, Law L, Attanayake A, et al
Greater body weight and body mass index (BMI) are associated with worse clinical outcomes in knee osteoarthritis, but these anthropometric measures do not assess fat mass. We evaluated sex-specific…
Sun JL, Shao N, Huang YF
Baroncini A, Boissiere L, Roscop C, et al
Retrospective comparative study using prospectively collected data from a multicenter adult spinal deformity (ASD) registry across six centers, with propensity score (PS) matching to compare surgical…
Hodakowski AJ, Hurley ET, Villarreal-Espinosa JB, et al
To systematically review the current evidence in the literature to evaluate the rates of return to play (RTP) and subsequent recurrent instability rate after surgical stabilization of anterior…
Auroux MA, Mercier-Guery A, Piot A, et al
Erosive hand osteoarthritis (ErHOA) is a severe form of HOA associated with greater inflammation and disability. We aimed to explore its association with bone loss and fracture. The QUALYOR study is…
Lee C, Loughran G, LeClere LE
Anterior labroligamentous periosteal sleeve avulsions, or "ALPSA" lesions, have been shown to have inferior clinical outcomes in prior literature, often attributed to their increased difficulty in…
Chang HH, Lee KH, Yoon TH, et al
To compare the serial measurements of repaired labral height in the early and late postoperative periods and clinical outcomes between patients with Bankart lesions and those with anterior…
Budani B, Kaur P, Bess SR, et al
Retrospective multicenter registry. To establish a multidimensional definition of surgical success in ASD surgery and evaluate achievement rates across diverse patient subgroups. Adult spinal…
King LK, Abhishek A
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, is a heterogenous condition with substantial variability in clinical presentation. Despite its high prevalence, OA is frequently underdiagnosed…
Adelstein JM, Sontich JK, Napora JK, et al
Hip arthroscopy offers promising outcomes for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and labral pathology, yet patient selection remains one of the strongest determinants for successful outcomes.…
Lian J, Zafar-Khan A, Banffy MB
To determine the incidence and risk factors for proximal femur fracture following hip arthroscopy. Using the PearlDiver Mariner 170 Ortho database, patients undergoing hip arthroscopy between 2010…
Botterbush KS, Patel MS, Srinivas AN, et al
Systematic review. To evaluate current protocols for corticosteroid use in patients with compressive epidural spinal metastasis. Spinal metastases are common in oncological patients. Although spinal…
Jain C, Yu J, Huang JJ, et al
Systematic review and meta-analysis. To synthesize pooled complication rates after cervical laminoplasty with reconstruction and to evaluate differences by surgical indication. Cervical laminoplasty…
Ilahi OA
Earlier research on venous thromboembolism following surgery tended to emphasize the rate of imaging-detected events, regardless of symptoms. Even then, the overall rate of this was relatively low…
Albrecht A, Kapral L, Gruber F, et al
To investigate whether prophylactic use of low-molecular-weight heparin (enoxaparin) after knee arthroscopy reduces the incidence of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared with no…
Brockmeyer M
Recurrent anterior shoulder instability (RASI) is frequently seen especially in young collision and contact athletes. The glenohumeral joint stability is often compromised by associated Hill-Sachs…
Bitar IJ, Marangoni LD, Bitar LB, et al
To compare clinical function and structural integrity of the subscapularis tendon in athletes with recurrent anterior shoulder instability treated with open Bankart repair with inferior capsular…
Zhu J, Dong J
Posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction remains limited by graft elongation, residual posterior laxity, and the persistent mechanical challenge of the tibial killer turn. Graft augmentations are…
Li W, Lv Y, Wang M, et al
To evaluate the effect of mesh augmentation autografts in posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstruction in a rabbit model in vivo. The left rear legs of 72 Japanese white rabbits underwent…
Lai YY, Chang SW
To elucidate the molecular mechanism by which mechanical forces regulate aggrecan degradation in osteoarthritic cartilage. Steered molecular dynamics simulations were conducted using an all-atom…
Perronne L, Decoux A, Duron L, et al
This study evaluated whether radiomics analysis of standard hand radiographs could provide an automated and objective assessment of structural severity in hand osteoarthritis (HOA) compared to…
Liu X, Hong CC, Reina F, et al
The navicular bone and the proximal fifth metatarsal (M5) play a vital role in maintaining the structural integrity and biomechanical stability of the foot's medial and lateral columns, respectively.…
Witten A, Thorborg K, Hölmich P, et al
The aim of this study was to investigate whether acromial morphology, scapular control, and ultrasonographic impingement were associated with treatment outcome from three months of non-surgical…
Haneberg E, Harkin W, Singh H, et al
To analyze demographic, anatomic, intraoperative, and preoperative patient reported outcomes surveys associated with post arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR) shoulder stiffness, as defined by…
Murray IR, Super JT, Tollefson LV, et al
Anterior cruciate ligament repair has re-emerged as a potential treatment option in carefully selected patients; however, its role in contemporary practice remains uncertain. Although recent evidence…
Greenwood SN, Adebayo T, Reinke EK, et al
To evaluate midterm outcomes of endoscopic proximal hamstring repair in a previously established cohort. A retrospective study design was used for a midterm (minimum 6 years) follow-up time.…