Nicolas Bouguennec, Matthieu Ollivier, and Bertrand Sonnery Cottet examine three athletes with sports-related knee injuries. They then discuss the key elements to consider and the treatment strategy to adopt, whether conservative or prosthetic.
- A 21-year-old man with both knee dislocations following a car accident. While his left knee has been treated, his right knee occasionally remains painful, and he is still unable to run.
- A 26-year-old man with a knee injury during contact while playing American football four months ago.
- A 30-year-old professional rugby player played an entire season with a PCL injury before sustaining another injury and undergoing surgery.
I am an orthopedic surgeon specialized in knee surgery. I practice at the University Hospital of Toulouse in the University Sports Clinic located in the Pierre Paul Riquet Hospital.
In addition to teaching at the Faculty of Medicine, I participate in courses for the professional societies to which I belong such as the SFA, ESSKA and SOFCOT.
My clinical activity (more than 800 surgeries per year) is exclusively focused on knee surgery. An important part of my surgeries is related to sports traumatology, in particular anterior cruciate ligament injuries (350+ ACL reconstructions per year).
My research activity is also focused on the knee. I have contributed to more than 110 publications in international journals. I am developing an à la carte approach in order to propose a personalized surgery to the patient. In the context of degenerative activity, the aim is to better analyze the variability of the anatomy in order to be able to propose prostheses adapted to the patient's anatomy. In the context of sports traumatology, it is a question of improving the dismemberment of all the lesions in order to propose an adequate therapy.
Since May 2022, I am a member of the board of ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) as treasurer.
Dr Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet is a world-renowned consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Centre Orthopedique Santy, FIFA medical Center of Excellence in Lyon, France specializing in the management of knee ligament injuries and sports trauma. He is the founder of the SANTI Study Group, bringing together young generation of surgeons from 4 continents and participating in numerous publications to advance the treatment of knee sports injuries.
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