Does insertional reattachment surgery deliver durable pain relief, function, and return to sport at two and five years? In a retrospective cohort study , researchers reviewed 39 patients (mean age 45; 92% male) who had the procedure between 2011 and 2019. The results were encouraging across multiple measures. Pain, function improvements, and return to activity At the five-year follow-up, the treatment demonstrated these improvements: Pain scores improved, dropping from 4.7

Published this spring, a study titled “ The Medial Mini-Open Supine Achilles Repair: Outcomes on a Medially Based Mini-Open Technique...

Concern has been raised regarding the quality of foot and ankle research. Authors have eloquently highlighted inherent biases in study design, effects on data presentation, as well as statistical manipulation i.e. “P-hacking.” Some have even called for statistical significance to be moved from P <0.05 to P <0.005. Catch the biases if you can Continuing the critical appraisal of the data is the recently published “The Statistical Fragility of Operative vs. Nonoperative Manag