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Lars Engebretsen co-winner of the Orthopaedic Nobel Prize award
Intoduction
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation has awarded the highly competitive and prestigious 2013 OREF Clinical Research Award to professor Robert F. LaPrade and his co-workers for the paper on “Improving Outcomes for Posterolateral Knee Injuries”.
Long history of collaboration between Vail and Oslo
Professor Engebretsen and Dr Steinar Johansen from the Orthopedic Department of the University of Oslo, Norway have been collaborating with the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado, for a long time, resulting in a lot of clinically relevant research on posterior medial and lateral knee injuries.
The OREF Clinical Research Award to Dr. LaPrade (picture) and his team is well deserved!
Dr. LaPrade’s collaborators on this paper included Lars Engebretsen, MD, PHD (University of Oslo, Norway), Steinar Johansen, MD (University of Oslo), Chad Griffith, MD (University of Minnesota), Benjamin Coobs, MD (University of Minnesota) and Andrew Geeslin, MD (Western Michigan University).
Dr. LaPrade will be presenting his winning paper at the Annual Meetings of the Orthopaedic Research Society and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 2013.
The posterolateral corner (PLC) of the knee is located on the outside of the knee joint and functions to stabilize the knee against direct or external forces. Most injuries that occur to this area are due to a sports impact, for example, football, soccer and/or basketball.
Although injuries to this area of the knee represent a smaller percentage of cases compared to the ACL or MCL, the injury can create a devastating impact to athletic performance.
- “I am very humbled to have been chosen to receive this award. I am also very grateful to my family for their support and to my many colleagues who have been an essential part of my research over the past 15 years.
- "This award solidly validates our research strategy of defining the anatomy, developing improved means of diagnosing a problem, redefining the clinically relevant biomechanics, developing improved radiographic diagnostic measures and biomechanically validated ligament reconstructions, and then validating these reconstructions in patient outcomes studies".
This picture shows the same group celebrating a recent award given for their significant researchto the field of anatomic medial knee reconstructions, and Dr. LaPrade adds:
- "In addition to the posterolateral knee for which this award was based, we have similar ongoing programs for the medial knee and MCL, anterior cruciate ligament, and posterior cruciate ligament."