Rehabilitation Following a Latarjet After a Failed Labral Repair in a Female Overhead Athlete: A Resident's Case Report.
Timothy Sieng, John Cicciaro, Jon Michelini and 2 others
PMID 40904714WHAT IT FOUND
A Division 1 basketball player returned to full sport five months after a Latarjet procedure, following a 16-week rehabilitation protocol.
She achieved limb symmetry scores above 90% and reported feeling 93% of her pre-injury baseline. This single case describes one possible pathway, not a proven standard.
Key findings
01The subject returned to full basketball activities at five months post-operatively, which is earlier than the typical six to nine months seen after Bankart repairs.
02At discharge, the subject reported feeling 93% of her pre-injury baseline and showed significant improvements in pain, function, and disability scores that exceeded minimal clinically important differences.
03Strength and performance testing at 16 weeks showed the surgical limb outperformed the non-surgical limb in strength and endurance, with limb symmetry indices above 90% for all tests.
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What it does not show
This is a single case report, so the outcomes cannot be generalized to other patients or athletes. The subject was a high-level Division 1 athlete, which may make her rehabilitation response and timeline different from recreational or lower-level athletes. The paper does not include long-term follow-up data beyond nine months, so the durability of the result is unknown. There was no control group, so it is impossible to know if the specific protocol steps were necessary or if a different approach would have yielded the same result. The authors note a lack of consensus in the literature for return-to-sport criteria, meaning the thresholds used here are based on existing studies but are not universally agreed upon.
Declared interests
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The case was completed during a residency program at the University of Florida Health.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this five-month return-to-sport timeline is standard or safe for all Latarjet patients. This is one athlete's response to one protocol, and the paper explicitly states there is no consensus on return-to-sport criteria for this population.
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