Mar 30 2014
FennBall ATR timeline for first days leading to surgery
Me Stats:
Male, age 52
Injury date&time: Feb 23, 2014, approx 11:30am
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Ya, the “old” evidence - from a small ~2009 sub-study analyzing the UWO data - showed no stat-sig relationshis between gap size (measured by ultrasound) and non-op outcome. Limited to the 25 UWO-Study patients who got clear US images pretreatment.
The NEW evidence is from the ~1000-patient non-op study from Glasgow: They (he!) got excellent results - including a 2.7% rerupture rate - with all kinds of ATRs, PROVIDED that he could find a DF ankle angle that would approximate the torn AT ends, based on this one expert’s sight and touch. Nothing randomized, if he couldn’t get the AT ends to meet, he operated!
Hi Norm, thanks for the updated non-op-separation-distance information/study. I’ll have to try to find that Glasgow paper.
on an unrelated note, when I first created my blog yesterday I tried copy & paste of contents of a text file into the edit window. The formatting looks lousy. I don’t know these editing tools that well — any ideas what’s going on or how to fix it?
Not really. Maybe the c-&-p inserts hard carriage returns at the ends of lines, and the two column widths don’t match?
The Irish (RGH Wallace, Glasgow) article is available at
boneandjoint.org.uk/highwire/filestream/17691/field_highwire_article_pdf/0/1362.full-text.pdf . And I think it’s one of the non-op studies that Cecilia has recently compared in a little spreadsheet.
Belfast, not Glasgow!