[Treatment of chondral lesions from knee injuries in the professional soccer players. Review of 34 cases].
OBJECTIVE
Evaluate the results of Pridie chondroplasty as an efficient treatment to recover the complete activity in soccer players and compare this with others chondral repair techniques.


METHODS
The patients were professional soccer players, all with a knee cartilage injury treated with the Pridie technique in an arthroscopic surgery between March 1999--December 2004. The age of the patients and the presence of a simple meniscal tear wasn't a fact to exclude a patient. Complex meniscal tear and a ACL rupture were an exclusion criteria. We deferred the support by 6 to 8 weeks. We initiated rehabilitation to the 4-5 post operating day. The follow up average was of 30 months.


RESULTS
We included 34 patients, age rank 19-31 years (average 24.6), 11 of them with meniscal injury Degree I associated with chondral damage. In 26 patients (76.47%) the outcomes were good allowing them to take up again their high level sport activity. The rest (23.53%) had regular or bad results with decrement in the game level, 4 of which (11%) they retired of the professional practice in relation to the found injuries.


CONCLUSIONS
The follow up time give us a good validation to establish that the used technique is a treatment of low cost, surgically simple with favorable outcomes and low morbidity comparable to the results obtained with other useful techniques of condral repair in the professional soccer player.
Mina
Nicolás Zarur
NZ
Sports Clinic, Montecito Núm. WTC, Col. Nápoles, C.P. Deleg. Benito Juárez, México.
Cuéllar
Eduardo Caldelas
EC
Chaparro
Ibis Morales
IM
D000328:Adult; D016118:Anterior Cruciate Ligament / Q000601:surgery; D000070598:Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries; D001182:Arthroscopy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001858:Bone Nails; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003646:Debridement; D006801:Humans; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008592:Menisci, Tibial / Q000601:surgery; D015915:Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D010008:Osteochondritis Dissecans / Q000150:complications; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012179:Retirement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012916:Soccer / Q000293:injuries*; D000070600:Tibial Meniscus Injuries; D016896:Treatment Outcome