No. 016: March-April 2022

This month, we are honored to feature an interview with Professor Thomas Bauer, whose career exemplifies a sustained commitment to clinical evaluation, percutaneous foot and ankle surgery, and one-stage infection management protocols. Mentored at Ambroise-Paré and later elevated to the presidency of the 20th ESSKA Congress, Professor Bauer has consistently prioritized evidence-based validation of surgical innovation alongside structured knowledge transmission and the integration of patient-reported outcomes.

The clinical articles address a breadth of topics spanning knee and ankle pathology. Contributions examine the natural history of anterior cruciate ligament injury, the role of tibial slope in ACL rerupture, and endoscopic flexor hallucis tenolysis combined with ACL reconstruction. Further articles evaluate acute patellar ligament reconstruction with the synthetic LARS ligament, management of the non-infected unhappy total knee arthroplasty, the evidence base for the subacromial balloon, and open versus arthroscopic repair for chronic lateral ankle instability.