TABLE 3.
Clinical Outcomes and Return to Activity After Medial Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy, Presented According to Amount of Medial Meniscal Extrusiona
| Assessment Point | <1.5 mm (n = 47) |
≥1.5 mm (n = 19) |
P Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOOS | Preoperative | 26.6 ± 3.6 | 28.8 ± 2.1 | .6 |
| Postoperative | 79.6 ± 2.2 | 69.5 ± 3.3 | <.001 | |
| Pain VAS | Preoperative | 8.0 ± 1.4 | 8.5 ± 0.5 | .8 |
| Postoperative | 2.2 ±1.2 | 3.7 ± 1.2 | <.001 | |
| Tegner | Preoperative | 1.4 ± 0.5 | 1.4 ± 0.5 | .72 |
| Postoperative | 4.2 ± 0.9 | 3.2 ± 0.4 | <.001 |
aValues are presented as mean ± SD. KOOS, Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score; VAS, visual analog scale.