Peroneal Nerve Injury: a 20- Year Retrospective Case Series Study

Medical University Innsbruck

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peroneal Nerve Injury; Sport Injury; Traumatic Injury

Treatments: Procedure: Microsurgical reconstruction of peroneal nerve with or w/o nerve grafts.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04980937

IBK-peroneus_2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

In a 20-year retrospective study, all skiers and snowboarders with a peroneal nerve injury at the fibular head treated surgically at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, were included. Covering a period from 1999/2000 to 2018/2019.

Full description

All data were gained in a clinical routine context, and the study design was retrospective. The work was approved by the local ethics committee of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (EK Nr.: 1300/2019). We reviewed medical charts from over a 20-year period, including all patients with a PNI after a ski- or snowboard-related accident requiring surgical intervention at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

We analyzed the demographical data, including age, gender, and citizenship, as well as included variables concerning the winter sport activity (i.e., ski or snowboard, owned or rented, self-inflicted without collision or collision caused by another skier or snowboarder, professional or recreational athlete). We also analyzed the injury itself (i.e., PNI as main injury, open or closed, motoric, sensible or both, fracture, muscle injury, complete or incomplete transection), as well as the treatment.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Skiers and snowboarders
• treated with a peroneal nerve injury at the fibular head
• time frame January 1999 to Dicember 2019

Exclusion criteria

• Different injury mechanism
• injury of a different nerve than peroneal nerve

Trial design

34 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with perineal nerve damage after ski injury

Description:

Retrospectively aquired patients from insight in medical records. All patients with perineal nerve damage after ski injury in the time period of question were enrolled. Inclusion required operative management of the injury interns of microsurgical reconstruction of peroneal nerve.

Treatment:

Procedure: Microsurgical reconstruction of peroneal nerve with or w/o nerve grafts.