Arthroscopy and Sports Trauma Surgery
Arthroscopic surgery provides solutions to hard-to-handle problems with the use of minimally invasive proceedings, while obtaining excellent functional and aesthetic results and by facilitating return to labor and sport activities.
As part of orthopedic surgery, arthroscopy has been the one with the greatest technological advances in instrumental and materials, thus it is now possible to have access to joints where open surgery was always indispensable in the past, like the knee, shoulder, elbow and ankle. You will find a description of the most commonly used arthroscopic proceedings hereafter.
KNEE
- Meniscectomy - meniscoplasty
- Chondroplasty
- Sinovectomy
- Arthroscopic Treatment for Septic Arthritis
- Loose body removal
- Lateral release of the Patella
- Knee debris liberation
- Synovial plica resection
- Arthoscopic meniscal suture
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with auto- or allograft
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with auto- or allograft
- Posterolateral or Posteromedial Corner Reconstruction
- Proximal and distal patellar realignment
- Osteochondral allografting
- Arthroscopic treatment of intra-articular fractures of the knee
SHOULDER
- Correction and repairing of the glenoid labrum (Bankart) and the humeral head (Hill Sachs)
- SLAP Lesion repair
- Multidirectional shoulder instability repair
- Arthroscopic repair of biceps tendon lesions
- Sinovectomy
- Rotator cuff lesion repair
- Arthroscopic bursectomy
- Arthroscopic treatment of calcific tendonitis of the shoulder
- Acromioplasty
- Arthroscopic resection of osteophytes
- Distal clavicle resection
ELBOW
- Therapeutic elbow arthroscopy
- Arthroscopic elbow debris liberation
- Chondroplasty
- Sinovectomy
- Elbow epicondylitis treatment
ANKLE
- Therapeutic ankle arthroscopy
- Sinovectomy
- Chondroplasty
- Allografting for osteochondral lesions of the talus
- Arthroscopic repair of ankle ligament lesions
Advantages of Arthroscopy
- Less pain for patient
- Faster functional recovery
- Easier rehab
- Quicker return to labor and sport activities
- Better cosmetic look
- Ambulatory surgery