The Future of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: What Should We Be Worried About?

Abstract

How long is a piece of string?- I worry that informal logic will take over from formal logic -- It’s not you, it’s me!- The lost leaders -- BIG DATA: revolution or complication?- The influence of industry -- Are we stifling innovation?- Don`t get dragged into the gloom: Keep the flame!- Pseudoscience and false avenues -- We’d better quit now -- Academic integrity and the God of data -- Research funding – finding a balance -- From science to daily practice: a huge gap! The example of meniscus surgery -- Living on the edge -- The last generation of doctors -- The future of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: It’s the human connection -- The meniscus is the most important piece of the knee -- Is medicine now a science or still an art?- Surgery is so passe!- We should be worried, about being worried!- The end of sports surgery -- Will our focus on techniques and technology to improve patient outcomes be at the expense of a loss of clinical judgement?- Are we going forward or standing still?- Please take your time: A research perspective -- What’s in it for me?- Social media in Sports Medicine -- Biologic and Regenerative Medicine: The Balance between Promise and Proven -- There are no facts only interpretations -- Increased incidence of sports trauma in children. Is it time to worry?- Persistent lack of patient treatment outcome information for patients, therapists and surgeons -- The perils and potentials of biologic therapies -- Am I a robot or a surgeon?- Who will guard the guardians?- Don’t wait to worry -- The threat of fake news!- The big bang and its fallout!- First the process, then the art of medicine? The Gruyere theory- The complexity of a “rope” -- If you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there!- What’s the use in worrying?- High-Technology technicians versus bedside doctors- Surgery is overvalued and rehabilitation undervalued following anterior cruciate ligament injury -- The professional responsibility of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeons as advocates for sports injury prevention -- Digitalization and machine learning -- Worried about the vision -- Why are ACL injury prevention programs not being implemented more widely?- Think of the children -- Mentoring in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine -- Challenges of certification and training - looking into the future -- Technology and Sports Medicine: The good, the bad and the ugly -- Will it be possible to perform a 99% perfect ACL reconstruction in the future?- The good and the bad of evidence based medicine, and the challenge of practicing in a time of increased connectivity and artificial intelligence -- Preventing osteoarthritis in young patients after anterior cruciate ligament injury -- The danger of making decisions for evolution, quality of care and education based on National Health data -- When dogmas are not revised soon our sportsmen’s hips and knees will not be preserved but instead replaced -- Ingenuity, intellectual integrity, honesty and collaboration will be the key to our future -- A lot done, more to do!