The American Journal of Sports Medicine

EDITOR: Bruce Reider, MD Chicago, IL
Editor: Bruce Reider, MD Chicago, IL
Current Concepts Editor: Timothy Foster, MD Boston, Massachusetts
Associate Editors: Allen F. Anderson, MD Nashville, Tennessee
Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD Los Angeles, USA
Editor Emeritus: Robert E. Leach, MD; 1991-2001 Boston, Massachusetts
Founding Editor: Jack C. Hughston, MD; 1972-1990 Columbus, Georgia
Board of Trustees: Allen F. Anderson, MD Nashville, Tennessee
James R. Andrews
Frederick M. Azar, MD Memphis, Tennessee
Bernard R. Bach, Jr., MD Chicago, Illinois
Freddie H. Fu Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
William A. Grana, MD, MPH Tucson, Arizona
Bruce Reider, MD Chicago, IL
T. David Sisk, MD, Chair Franklin, Tennessee
Thomas L. Wickiewicz, MD New York, New York
Editorial Board: John P. Albright, MD Iowa City, Iowa
Louis C. Almekinders, MD Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jack T. Andrish, MD Cleveland, Ohio
Elizabeth A. Arendt, MD Minneapolis, Minnesota
Steven P. Arnoczky, DVM East Lansing, Michigan
Michael Askew, PhD Akron, Ohio
Frederick M. Azar, MD Memphis, Tennessee
Champ L. Baker, Jr., MD Columbus, Georgia
James Baldwin, MD Portland, Oregon
Phillipe Beaufils, MD Le Chesnay, France
Bruce D. Beynnon, PhD Burlington, Vermont
Charles H. Brown, Jr., MD Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Charles A. Bush-Joseph, MD Chicago, Illinois
Gianluca Camillieri, MD Rome, Italy
James E. Carpenter, MD Ann Arbor, Michigan
Chih-Hwa Chen, MD Keelung, Taiwan
Moises Cohen, MD Sao Paulo, Brazil
John Conway, MD Ft. Worth, Texas
Marlene DeMaio, MD Portsmouth, Virginia
Ron L. Diercks, MD Groningen, the Netherlands
Lars Engebretsen, MD Oslo, Norway
Donald C. Fithian, MD El Cajon, California
Braden C. Fleming, PhD Providence, Rhode Island
Cristian A. Fontbote Santiago, Chile
Cyril B. Frank, MD Calgary, Canada
Freddie H. Fu, MD Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
William E. Garrett Jr., MD, PhD Durham, North Carolina
James G. Garrick, MD San Francisco, Calfornia
Mark D. Grabiner, PhD Chicago, Illinois
Ben K. Graf, MD Madison, Wisconsin
Richard J. Hawkins, MD Spartanburg, South Carolina
Michael J. Hayes Stepney, Australia
Stephen M. Howell, MD Sacramento, California
Mark Hutchinson, MD Chicago, Illinois
Eiji Itoi, MD Akita, Japan
Markku Jarvinen, MD, PhD Tampere, Finland
David P. Johnson, MD, FRCSC (Orth) Bristol, United Kingdom
Robert J. Johnson, MD Burlington, Vermont
Mustafa Karahan, MD Istanbul, Turkey
Seung-Ho Kim, MD, PhD Seoul, Korea
Donald Kirkendall, PhD Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dieter Kohn, MD Homberg / Saar, Germany
Robert F. LaPrade, MD, PhD Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mario V. Larrain, MD Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rene Marti, MD Amsterdam, the Netherlands
David F. Martin, MD Winston-Salem, North Carolina
David R. McAllister, MD Los Angeles, California
Edward R. McDevitt, MD Arnold, Maryland
Edward McFarland, MD Baltimore, Maryland
Jacques Menetrey, MD Geneva, Switzerland
Antonio C. Miguel, MD Mexico City, Mexico
Bruce S. Miller, MD Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mark D. Miller, MD Charlottesville, Virginia
Robert H. Miller, MD Memphis, Tennessee
Nicholas Mohtadi, MD, FRCS Calgary, Canada
Michael A. Oberlander, MD Concord, California
John W. Orchard, MD Kensington, Australia
Lonnie E. Paulos, MD Houston, Texas
Giancarlo Puddu, MD Rome, Italy
Per A. Renstrom, MD Stockholm, Sweden
Thomas D. Rosenberg, MD Park City, Utah
Marc R. Safran, MD Stanford, California
Sven U. Scheffler, MD Berlin, Germany
K. Donald Shelbourne, MD Indianapolis, Indiana
Margaret Smith, Ph.D. St. Leonards, Australia
Mark E. Steiner, MD Boston, Massachusetts
Michael J. Stuart, MD Rochester, Minnesota
Carol C. Teitz, MD Seattle, Washington
Laura Timmerman, MD Walnut Creek, California
Steve Tippett, PhD, PT, SCS, ATC Peoria, Illinois
Bruce C. Twaddle, MBChB, FRACS Auckland, New Zealand
Daniel C. Wascher, MD Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thomas L. Wickiewicz, MD New York, New York
Savio L-Y. Woo, PhD Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kazunori Yasuda, MD, PhD Sapporo, Japan
Principal Reviewers: Jeffrey S. Abrams, MD
Robert Afra, MD
Julie Agel, MA, ATC
Christopher S. Ahmad, MD
David W. Altchek, MD
Annuziato Amendola, MD
Kyle Anderson, MD
Michel A. Arcand, MD
Robert A. Arciero, MD
Michael J. Askew, PhD Akron, Ohio
James Banovetz, MD, PhD
F. A. Barber, MD
William R. Barfield, PhD
Keith M. Baumgarten, MD
Charles L. Beck, MD
Asheesh Bedi, MD
Gregory C. Berlet, MD Chief Section of Foot and Ankle and Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopedics, Ohio State University
Leslie J. Bisson, MD
Barry P. Boden, MD
Michael Bohnsack, MD
Craig R. Bottoni, MD
Melbourne D. Boynton, MD
James P. Bradley, MD
Mats Brittberg, MD Gothenburg University, Sweden
Andrew W. Brown, MD University of London
Charles H. Brown, MD Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Robert T. Burks, MD
William C. Burns, MD
Daniel D. Buss, MD
James L. Carey, MD Columbia University, USA
Chih-Hwa Chen, MD Keelung, Taiwan
William G. Clancy, MD
Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA Rush University Medical Center, Illinois
Daniel E. Cooper, MD
Thomas M. DeBerardino, MD
Louis E. DeFrate, ScD
Masataka Deie, MD
David R. Diduch, MD
Patrick Djian, MD
Claudio Dora, MD
Jeffrey R. Dugas, MD
John J. Elias, PhD
Paul Fadale, MD
Jack Farr, MD Indianapolis, USA
Daniel N. Fish, MD
Barry J. Gainor, MD
Robin M. Gehrmann, MD
C. David Geier, Jr, MD
Michael S. George, MD
Anastasios Georgoulis, Md
Peter G. Gerbino, MD
John R. Green, MD
Patrick E. Greis, MD
Letha Y. Griffin, MD
Joseph H. Guettler, MD
Sharon L. Hame, MD
Christopher D. Harner, MD
Wendy Hurd, PhD
Kurt E. Jacobson, MD
Timo J. Jarvela
Bernhard Jost, MD
Kenneth Jurist, MD
Spero G. Karas, MD
Jon Karlsson, MD
James Keene, MD
Rajeev Kelkar, PhD, Mphil, MS
Anne M. Kelly, MD
Keith Kenter, MS
Karsten Knobloch, MD, PhD
Masahiko Kobayashi, MD, PhD
Sumant G. Krishnan, MD
Keith W. Lawhorn, MD
Mark Jason Lemos, MD
Stephen Edward Lemos, MD, PhD
Steven D. Levin, MD
Andrew S. Levy, MD
Guoan Li, PhD
Nicola Maffulli, MD
Krishna Mallik, MD
Stefan Marlovits, MD, PhD
Robert G. Marx, MD
John M. Marzo, MD
James W. Matheson, PT, SCS, CSCS
Edward R. McDevitt, MD Arnold, Maryland
Malachy P. McHugh, PhD
Gregory J. Menio, MD
Peter J. Millett, MD
Stephen J. Nicholas, MD
Michael S. Orendurff, MS
Brett D. Owens, MD
William R. Post, MD
John W. Powell, PhD, ATC
Matthew T. Provencher, MD
Bart Rask, MD
Jan D. Rompe, MD
J. R. Rudzki, MD
Michell Ruiz-Suarez, MD
Gian M. Salzmann, MD
Theodore F. Schlegel, MD
Wayne J. Sebastianelli, MD
Jon K. Sekiya, MD
Robert M. Shalvoy, MD
Mark Siegel, MD
Jay Smith, MD
Steven J. Svoboda, MD
Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD
Pedro J. Tort-Saade, MD
Bruce C. Twaddle, BHB, MBChB, FRACS Auckland, New Zealand
Michael L. Voight, DHSc
Vincent M. Wang, PhD
Stephen C. Weber, MD
Brian R. Wolf, MD
William B. Workman, MD
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