showed a trend suggesting that surgeries performed within three months of an acute rotator cuff tear were linked to better post-operative range of motion and Constant scores [ 13 ].
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Time-sensitive ambulatory orthopaedic soft-tissue surgery paradigms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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While various thresholds exist in the literature, pre-clinical and clinical evidences show a clear trend of clinically and statistically meaningful improvement in motor scores when surgery is performed within 24 hours of injury, especially in patients with cervical cord injury and traumatic central cord syndrome [ 59 , 61 ].