Table 3.

Clinical outcome measures (n = 23 knees with mean follow-up of 59 months)

Pain	Preoperative	Postoperative	p value
Pain on scale of 1–10a	8.6 (7.9–9.4)	3.3 (2.0–4.6)	< 0.001

Outcomes questionnaire item	Postoperative response
Do you continue to have knee pain/problems?	70 % Yes
Have you had any patellar instability since surgery?	43 % Yes
Do you “trust” your knee?	57 % Yes
Have you changed your lifestyle/activities?	65 % Increased
	13 % Same
	22 % Decreased
Have you had knee surgery since your osteotomy/hardware removal?	22 % Yes

^aData presented as means with 95 % confidence intervals in parentheses