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Nick Lemme

Nick Lemme

Orthopedic sports medicine and trauma surgeon at University Orthopedics in Providence, RI, and team physician for Providence College Athletics.

Sep 20, 2026

1:56
What goes into your screening evaluation process the first time you meet them? And what kind of information are you hoping to kind of tease out or extract?
2:04
Yeah, no, absolutely.
2:05
I think it's a great topic.
2:06
I think the thing with lateral patellar instability, out of everything that we probably treat as sports medicine surgeons, it's probably one of the most complicated.
2:14
I think a lot of people treat it, but may not fully understand it because I think there's a lot of different factors and that contribute to how we make decisions on treatment.
2:26
And even as, you know, people who are experts in this field, we don't fully understand who is, you know, when a procedure like a soft tissue procedure, like an MPFL reconstruction is okay versus adding something else.
2:38
And it's something that, you know, we're fleshing out as there's more and more research.

17 MINS LATER

19:34
Yeah.

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