FRIDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Surgical treatment of unresolved Osgood-Schlatter disease in young adults typically results in excellent or good functional outcomes, with rare reoperations, according to research published in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
Harri K. Pihlajamäki, M.D., of the Centre for Military Medicine in Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues analyzed data from 107 military recruits who underwent surgery for unresolved Osgood-Schlatter disease at a median age of 20 years, and participated in a follow-up examination after a median of 10 years.
At follow-up, 87 percent of patients had no restrictions on their everyday activities or work, and 75 percent had gone back to their preoperative level of leisure-time sports. Most patients (68 percent) reported that squatting didn't cause problems, and 38 percent reported no pain while kneeling. The median visual analog score for intensity of pain during the week before the follow-up visit was seven on a scale of zero to 100. Only two had undergone a reoperation to treat the condition.
"In the great majority of patients, the surgical treatment of Osgood-Schlatter disease yielded an excellent or good functional outcome and physical activity level, and the residual pain intensity was low. In addition, one of the main symptoms, discomfort while kneeling, had totally disappeared in nearly 40 percent of the patients. Postoperative complications or subsequent reoperations were rare," the authors write.
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