A new technique for treating recurrent kneecap dislocations in teenagers and young adults has been pioneered by a surgeon at the James Paget University Hospital.
The outcomes of the techniques have recently been published in an international, peer reviewed Journal.
The study, which has been published in this month’s edition of The Knee journal, explains the success that Mr Hersh Deo, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (pictured above), has had using the technique, which uses minimally invasive surgery and a synthetic graft to reconstruct the ligament vital for kneecap stability.
A total of 85 patients who underwent the surgery for kneecap dislocations from 2014 to 2022 were retrospectively reviewed by Mr Deo, co-authored by Orthopaedic specialist colleagues Dr Ramy Mohamed and Dr Genena Ahmed.
Mr Deo, who is also Assistant Medical Director for the Division of Surgery at the James Paget, said; “This is a pioneering technique for treating recurrent patella instability – which reduces post-operative pain, complications and weakness allowing for quicker rehabilitation and therefore recovery.
“Medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction is the most popular surgical treatment but there have been very few papers published on the use of modern synthetic grafts. The technique which I have developed is minimally invasive and reproducible and we found a statistically significant improvement with this technique with fewer complications compared to the published data.
“We believe this is the largest single-surgeon cohort review of synthetic MPFL reconstructions to have been studied and proves that modern synthetic graft is both safe and effective for this type of reconstruction.”
The full paper is available here; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968016023001783