Return to sport following the Latarjet procedure
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Do patients return to sport following Latarjet surgery?
IRAS ID
207847
Contact name
Anthony Gough
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bath
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 1 days
Research summary
Shoulder dislocations often occur whilst playing sport and normally happen in young patients. In order to prevent further dislocations some people require surgery and patients wish to continue playing sport after their surgery.
Surgeons have begun to focus on patient outcome measures to help evaluate the success of a procedure. In the past surgical success has been measured on small variations in degrees of movements of a joint. In reality these measurements did not reflect the function achieved after surgery. Patient outcome measures and the functional ability of a patient after surgery are a far more pragmatic and informative assessment of how successful an operation is.
Returning to sport after surgery has begun to be used as a surgical marker. This has never been evaluated or reported in the literature for the Latarjet procedure and this study aims address this knowledge gap. Inevitably, not all patients will return to sport after their surgery and by using a questionnaire post-operatively we will try to discover the underlying reasons for patients not returning to sport after their shoulder surgery.
REC name
South Central - Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/SC/0609
Date of REC Opinion
11 Nov 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion