title: A reusable suture anchor for arthroscopy psychomotor skills training.
abstract: For residents to adequately develop the early arthroscopy psychomotor skills required to better learn how to manage the improvisational situations they will encounter during actual patient cases, they need to experience sufficient practice repetitions within a contextually relevant environment. Unfortunately, the cost of suture anchors can be a practice repetition-limiting factor in learning arthroscopic knot-tying techniques. We describe a technique for creating inexpensive reusable suture anchors and provide an example of their application to repair the anterior glenoid labrum during an arthroscopy psychomotor skills laboratory training session.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
authors.forename: Edward D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Tillett
authors.forename: Rainie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nyland
mesh_terms: D001182:Arthroscopy; D004867:Equipment Design; D017743:Equipment Reuse; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000193:education*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012540:Scapula / Q000601:surgery; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*