The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM), developed by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), is a global, peer-reviewed, open access journal that combines the interests of researchers and clinical practitioners across orthopaedic sports medicine, arthroscopy, and knee and shoulder arthroplasty.

Topics include original research in the areas of:

Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, including surgical and nonsurgical treatment of orthopaedic sports injuries
Arthroscopic Surgery (Shoulder/Elbow/Wrist/Hip/Knee/Ankle/Foot)
Relevant translational research
Sports traumatology/epidemiology
Knee and shoulder arthroplasty

The OJSM also publishes relevant systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

EDITORIAL:
Read the first Editorial Open Access for Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, written by Editor-in-Chief Bruce Reider, MD and Associate Editors Drs. Allen F. Anderson and Mark E. Steiner.

OJSM FAQs:
Find out more about OJSM, read the OJSM FAQs.

Editorial Board:
The OJSM editorial board members hail from over 30 different countries. This map recognizes a global presence by highlighting the locations of our distinguished editorial board in red.

Abstract Supplements:
OJSM accepts meeting and poster abstracts from partner societies for publication in the Journal. Click here for submission details.

Submit your manuscript today at https://submit.ojsm.org/.

The aim of OJSM is to provide a truly international source of high-quality peer-reviewed clinical research, relevant basic and translational research, and review articles.

Topics include original research in the areas of:

Orthopaedic sports medicine, including surgical and nonsurgical treatment of orthopaedic sports injuries
Arthroscopic surgery (shoulder/elbow/wrist/hip/knee/ankle/foot)
Relevant translational research
Sports traumatology/epidemiology
Knee and shoulder arthroplasty

OJSM also publishes relevant systematic reviews and meta-analyses as well as consensus statements and scientific meeting abstracts of affiliated societies.

Editor-in-Chief

Bruce Reider, MD

University of Chicago, AOSSM, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Associate Editors

Julian Feller, MB, BS (Hons)	OrthoSport Victoria, Richmond, VIC 3124, Australia
Donald C. Fithian, MD	Torrey Pines Orthopaedic Medical Group, San Diego, California, USA
Keith Kenter, MD	Western Michigan University School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Daniel C. Wascher, MD	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Ivan Ho-Bun Wong, MD, FRCS(C), MACM, Dip. Sports Med	Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Assistant Editor for Social Media

Douglas A. Evans, MD

Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA

AOSSM Publishing Advisory Board

Stephen F. Brockmeier, MD	University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Lutul D. Farrow, MD	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Frank Winston Gwathmey Jr, MD	University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Eric McCarty, MD	University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Matthew T. Provencher, MD	The Steadman Clinic, Vail, Colorado, USA
Bruce Reider, MD	University of Chicago, AOSSM, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Kurt P. Spindler, MD	Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Edward M. Wojtys, MD	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Rick Wright, MD	Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Editorial Staff

Donna Tilton

Senior Editorial and Production Manager

Editorial Board Representatives

Kristoffer Barfod, MD, PhD	Sports Othopedic Research Center - Copenhagen (SORC-C), Copenhagen, Denmark
Tahsin Beyzadeoglu, MD	Halic University, Istanbul, Turkey
Nicolaas C. Budhiparama	Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Philippe Clavert, MD, PhD	University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Benno Ejnisman, MD	Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Deepak Goyal, MBBS, MS, DNB	Saumya Arthroscopy & Sports Knee Clinic, Ahmedabad, India
Chul-Won Ha, MD, PhD	Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Adel Hamed, MD	Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Camilo Helito, MD, PhD, Prof	University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Yinghui Hua, MD, PhD	Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Christian Lattermann, MD	Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lance E. LeClere, MD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Alberto E. Martínez Trillos, MD	Private Practice, Bogota, Colombia
Andri Maruli Tua Lubis, MD, PhD	Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Hideo Matsumoto, MD, PhD	Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Juan D. Ayala Mejías, MD, PhD	Hospital San Rafael, Madrid, Spain
Mauro Minig, MD	Sanatorio Allende Cordoba, Argentina
Philipp Niemeyer, MD, PhD	Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Pericles P. Papadopoulos, MD, PhD	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Mark V. Paterno, PT, PhD, MBA, SCS, ATC	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Attila Pavlik, MD, PhD	Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Simon N.J. Roberts, MA, BM Bch, FRCS (Ortho) FFSEM(UK)	The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, United Kingdom
Daniel Slullitel, MD	Hospital Italiano de Rosario Instituto Jaime Slullitel, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Anders Stålman, MD, PhD	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Allison Tucker, MD, MSc, FRCS(C)	Young Kempt Physiotherapy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Alex Vaisman, MD	Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Christopher Vertullo, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthA	Knee Research Australia & Griffith University, Benowa, Australia
Stefano Zaffagnini, MD	Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

Editorial Board

Ashraf Abdelkafy, MD	Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
Julie Agel, MA, ATC	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ryuichiro Akagi, MD, PhD	Oyumino Central Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Sachin Allahabadi, MD	Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Georgina Allen, MD	Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ana Catarina Ângelo, MD	Hospital dos SAMS de Lisboa I Joaquim Chaves Saúde, Lisbon, Portugal
Miguel A. Ayerza, MD, PhD	Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Christian Balazs, MD	Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Maurice Balke, MD	Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany
Michael Banffy, MD	Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, Los Angeles, California, USA
Knut Beitzel, MD	Technische Universität München, München, Germany
Paulo Santoro Belangero, MD, PhD	Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Berthold, MD	Musculoskeletal University Center Munich, Munich, Germany
Patrick M. Birmingham, MD	NorthShore University Health System, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Leslie J. Bisson, MD	State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York, USA
Matthew Brick, MBchB, FRACS(Ortho)	Millennium Institute of Sport and Health, Auckland, New Zealand
Matthias Brockmeyer, MD	Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany
Daniel D. Buss, MD	Allina Health Orthopedics, Edina, Minnesota, USA
E. Lyle Cain, MD	Andrews Sports Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Michael R. Carmont, MBBS	Princess Royal Hospital, Telford, United Kingdom
Joe Chih-Hao Chiu, MD, PhD	Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
James A. Cooper, PhD	Musculoskeletal and Translational Tissue Engineering Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Andrew J. Cosgarea, MD	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
David DeJour, MD	Lyon-Ortho-Clinic, Lyon, France
Clayton Del Prince, MD	UBMD Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Buffalo, New York, USA
Lee H. Diehl, MD	Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Patrick Djian, MD	Cabinet Goethe - Chirurgie Orthopedique, Paris, France
Jeffrey R. Dugas, MD	American Sports Medicine Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Mohammed ElAttar, MBBCH, MD	Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
Hussein Elkousy, MD	Fondren Orthopedic Group, Houston, Texas, USA
Kevin Farmer, MD	University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Julian A. Feller, FRACS	OrthoSport Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Giuseppe Filardo, MD, PhD	Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Niklaus F. Friederich, MD	University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Charles J. Gatt, MD	Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, Somerset, New Jersey, USA
Robin M. Gehrmann, MD	Collegiate Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Institute, Millburn, New Jersey, USA
C. David Geier, MD	Better Life Carolinas, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
James Warner Genuario, MD	Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver, Englewood, Colorado, USA
Andreas H. Gomoll, MD	Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
Justin J. Greiner, MD	University of Nebraska Medical Center, Papillion, Nebraska, USA
Stefan H. Greiner, MD	Sporthopaedicum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Matthew James Hartwell, MD	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Javad Hashemi, PhD	Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Elmar Herbst, MD	University Hospital Muenster, Münster, Germany
Iftach Hetsroni, MD	Meir General Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel
Sherwin S.W. Ho, MD	University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ali Hosseini, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jonathan D. Hughes, MD	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Michael Hulstyn, MD	Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Michael Ilias Iosifidis, MD, PhD	OrthoBiology, Surgery Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
Grant Lloyd Jones, MD	The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Morgan H. Jones, MD, MPH	Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Charles Kajetanek, MD	Institut Locomoteur de l'Ouest, Saint-Grégoire, France
Richard W. Kang, MS, MD	Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Denver, Colorado, USA
Rajeev Kelkar, PhD, MPhil, MS, BS	InSciTech, Inc., Mountainview, California, USA
Nobuto Kitamura, MD	St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Masahiko Kobayashi, MD, PhD	Kyoto Shimogamo Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Jason Lee Koh, MD	Endeavor Health, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Lars Konradsen, MD	Bispebjerg Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
Daniel Latt, MD, PhD	University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Stephen E. Lemos, MD, PhD	Associated Orthopedists of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Michael Leunig, MD	Schulthess Clinic, Zürich, Switzerland
Olaf Lorbach, MD, PhD	Schön-Clinic, Lorsch, Germany
Scott A. Lynch, MD	Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Hsiao-Li Ma, MD	Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Robert A. Magnussen, MD, MPH	The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Ajith Malige, MD	Advanced Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA
Michael Maloney, MD	University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Rodrigo Mardones, MD	Longevityforcell, Santiago, Chile
Vladimir Martinek, MD	Orthopädie Harthausen, Bad Aibling, Germany
Prashant Meshram, MBBS, MS, DNB	Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India
Charles Milgrom, MD	Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Kai Mithoefer, MD	Harvard Medical School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA
Yu Mochizuki, MD	Kaiseirihabiriseiekigeka Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan
Ryan N. Moran, PhD, LAT, ATC	University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Roger Leandro Nunes Ogassawara, MD	Policlinica Parana/IOT Maringá, Maringá, Parana, Brazil
Sam Oussedik, BSc, MBBS, FRCS(Tr&Orth)	University College Hospital London, United Kingdom
Pericles P. Papadopoulos, MD, PhD	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Jin-Young Park, MD, PhD	Neon Orthopaedic Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea
David A. Parker, MD	Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nata Parnes, MD	Carthage Area Hospital, Carthage, New York, USA
Halit Pinar, MD	Private Practice, Izmir, Turkey
Pietro S. Randelli, MD	Istituto Ortopedico Gaetano Pini, Milan, Italy
Christopher J. Roach, MD	Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Anthony A. Romeo, MD	Romeo Orthopedics, Hinsdale, Illinois, USA
Jan Harald Røtterud, MD, PhD	Akershus University Hospital, Holter, Norway
Michell Ruiz-Suarez, MD, PhD	Traumatología Deportiva de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Patrick Sadoghi, MD, PhD, MBA	Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Jose Antonio San Juan, MD	Cebu Orthopaedic Institute, Cebu City, Philippines
Mikel Sanchez, MD	Arthroscopic Surgery Unit, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Robert C. Schenck, MD	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Mark S. Schickendantz, MD	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Elizabeth J. Scott, MD	Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Joseph Milo Sewards, MD	Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert Smigielski, MD	LIFE Medical Center, Warsaw, Poland
Chris C. Stroud, MD	William Beaumont Hospital, Troy, Michigan, USA
Steven J. Svoboda, MD	MedStar Orthopaedic Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
Yoshitsugu Takeda, MD, PhD	Tokushima Red Cross Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
Sachin R. Tapasvi, MS, DNB, FRCS	The Orthopaedic Speciality Clinic, Pune, India
Alex Vaisman, MD	Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Michael L. Voight, PT, DHSc, OCS, SCS, ATC, FAPTA	Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Dharmesh Vyas, MD, PhD	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, USA
W. Angus Wallace, FRCS(Ed&Eng), FRCSEd(Orth), FFSEM(UK)	Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Daniel B. Whelan, MD	St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stefano Zaffagnini, MD	Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

Emeritus Editorial Board Members

Stephen F. Brockmeier, MD	University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA	Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Magali Cucchiarini, PhD	Center of Experimental Orthopaedics, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Juan M. Del Castillo, MD	Clínica de Traumatología y Ortopedia de la Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
David R. Diduch, MD, MS	University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Daniel Tik-Pui Fong, PhD	School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Andreas B. Imhoff, MD	Technische Universität München, München, Germany
Mary Lloyd Ireland, MD	University of Kentucky Healthcare, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Bernhard Jost, MD	Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Lee D. Kaplan, MD	University of Miami Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
Miguel A. Khoury, MD	Hudson, Argentina
Gunnar Knutsen, MD, PhD	University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Mininder S. Kocher, MD, MPH	Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jit-Kheng Lim, MBBCh, FRCSEd, FRCSGlasg, FRCSEd(Orth), MSportMed	Singapore, Singapore
Martin Lind, MD, PhD	Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Robert G. McCormack, MD, FRCSC	University of British Columbia, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Dominik C. Meyer, MD	University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Martha Meaney Murray, MD	Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Leo A. Pinczewski, FRACS	University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
J. R. Rudzki, MD	The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Orrin H. Sherman, MD	New York, New York, USA
Matthew V. Smith, MD	Washington University, Chesterfield, Missouri, USA
Timothy N. Taft, MD	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Dean C. Taylor, MD	Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Willem M. Van Der Merwe, MD	Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Darius G. Viskontas, MD, FRCSC	University of British Columbia, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Michael Wettstein, MD	Institut de Traumatologie et d'Orthopédie du Léman Suisse, Genolier, Switzerland
Brian R. Wolf, MD, MS	University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

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