No Difference in Complications Between Elbow Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction With the Docking and Modified Jobe Techniques: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Austin MacFarland LooneyNathan P FacklerMark A PiankaBlake Michael BodendorferCaroline M FryarChristine M ConroyJacob E IsraelDavid X WangMichael G CiccottiEdward S ChangPublished in: The American journal of sports medicine (2021)
The results of this study demonstrate no significant difference in the rates of complications or subsequent unplanned surgical procedures between the figure-of-8 and docking techniques for UCLR when controlling for FPM preservation versus detachment with submuscular UNT. With modern muscle-sparing approaches and avoiding submuscular UNT, the modified Jobe technique does not differ significantly from the docking technique in terms of complication rates, proportions of cases with nerve-specific complications, or rates of subsequent unplanned surgical procedures.