Surgical versus non-surgical interventions for treating patellar dislocation.

There is insufficient high quality evidence to confirm any significant difference in outcome between surgical or non-surgical initial management of people following primary patellar dislocation, and none examining this comparison in people with recurrent patellar dislocation. Adequately powered randomised, multi-centre controlled trials, conducted and reported to contemporary standards are recommended. Hing CB, Smith TO, Donell S, Song F. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Nov 9;11:CD008106. PMID: 22071844