Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
Volume 25, Issue 7 , Pages 705-706, July 2009

Let's Go to the Video

Article Outline

 

Missouri is called the “Show Me” state. According to an official state history, “There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet … The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates. The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, ‘I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.' Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.”1

Yet, in 1899, it would have been impossible to show Representative Vandiver much of the Philadelphia Navy Yard once the Representative traveled back to Jefferson City.

Much has changed in the 110 years since. Today, a few clicks on the Internet bring literally hundreds of videos of the Navy Yard (2), later the Naval Shipyard, and now the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, right to our desktop monitor, our PDA, or even our cellular phone.2 “Let's go to the video” is a common quote attributable no longer to a select few television newscasters; today, we “go to the video” in the operating room, and from the operating room to the educational podium.

We arthroscopic surgeons have always been on the cutting edge of technology and were keen to adapt and “go to the video.” As evidence, it has been more than 20 years since Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) Executive Vice President, and Past President, J. Whit Ewing, M.D., was credited with the development of a video library to be used in conjunction with the Arthroscopy journal.3 Yet, through 2009, our Journal has published video on its Web site only infrequently. We are aware of only 4 articles that incorporated video in 20084, 5, 6, 7 and only 3 so far in 2009.8, 9, 10 In our current issue, we take full responsibility as we lament that no video is published. This is not to say that our authors would be ill at ease if asked to travel straight to the “show me” state. In this issue and as ever, we publish the finest images, now digital, and readers may particularly note the convincing figures published by Sonnery-Cottet et al.,11 Chiang et al.,12 Carpenter et al.,13 Nho et al.,14 and Sgaglione and Florence.15

But today, should we rest on the proverbial laurels of digital still images? Without video, we will fail to take full advantage of technology on the cutting edge.

Today, your Editors feel compelled to issue the resounding directive of our generation: Let's go the video! Just as most past and current Arthroscopy articles contain illustrations, our goal in 2010 is that most articles published in Arthroscopy will include compelling and educational video.

Your journal Board of Trustees and the AANA Board of Directors, have generously allowed Arthroscopy's Editors and Associate Editors to offer an Annual Prize to a published manuscript meeting criteria to be determined each year by the Editors and Associate Editors. We are pleased to announce that the 2010 Arthroscopy journal prize will be awarded to the authors of the manuscript incorporating the finest published video as voted by the Associate Editors. (As you know, the 2009 journal prize will be awarded to the authors of the finest Level I evidence article.)

To reiterate, next year, the Arthroscopy journal will bestow a cash prize of $5,000 on those authors publishing the finest video of 2010 as voted by the Associate Editors. Additionally eligible for this prize are authors who submit video paired with a journal cover illustration (so authors need not be accomplished writers or researchers to go straight “to the video”).

As such, we have updated our Instructions for Authors regarding Video Clips16:

“Arthroscopy invites authors to submit video clips to be published on the journal's Web site as illustrations incorporated in an article that the author is submitting for publication or as video paired with a journal cover illustration. All video clips are subject to peer review. The following formats for video will be accepted: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov), Audio/Video Interface (.avi), or CompuServe GIF (.gif).

“Arthroscopy will not edit any video or computer graphics, but a reviewer may suggest that the author make changes in the video or computer graphic. Videos and computer graphics will not be accepted separately from a manuscript that has been rejected; however, a manuscript may be accepted even if a video is rejected.

“Maximum cumulative length of videos or animated computer graphics is 4.5 minutes. Files may be divided into several smaller clips not to exceed 4.5 minutes in total. Each video segment file cannot exceed 50MB. The submission program will timeout if the file size is larger than 50MB. To hasten the upload time, please ZIP the file and upload the ZIP file. If the video or animation is divided into several clips, each clip should be identified at the beginning of the section, e.g., Video Clip 1 or Graphic 1, and each clip or graphic should be saved as a separate file. Concise legends (typed on a separate page) must accompany each video clip or computer graphic presentation. A soundtrack is highly recommended.

“Copyright for all video clips published on the Journal's Web site will be held by the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Each coauthor of a video clip must sign a form expressly transferring copyright in the event that the video clip is published on the Journal's Web site.”

These are the rules. Let's go to the video.

Show me.

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References 

  1. Official Manual of the State of Missouri. 1979-1980;1486 http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.aspAccessed May 12, 2009
  2. Google video search results for “Philadelphia navy yard”. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Philadelphia+Navy+Yard&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#Accessed May 12, 2009
  3. Joyce JJ. History of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (Its origin and growth: Part II). Arthroscopy. 1988;4:1–4
  4. Kobayashi T, Ochi M, Yanada S, et al. A novel cell delivery system using magnetically labeled mesenchymal stem cells and an external magnetic device for clinical cartilage repair. Arthroscopy. 2008;24:69–76
  5. Barber FA. Percutaneous arthroscopic release of the suprascapular nerve. Arthroscopy. 2008;24:236.e1–236.e4
  6. Bain GI, Munt J, Turner PC. New advances in wrist arthroscopy. Arthroscopy. 2008;24:355–367
  7. Lubowitz JH. Anteromedial portal technique for the anterior cruciate ligament femoral socket: Pitfalls and solutions. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:95–101
  8. Nho SJ, Ghodadra N, Provencher MT, Reiff S, Romeo AA. Anatomic reduction and next-generation fixation constructs for arthroscopic repair of crescent, L-shaped, and U-shaped rotator cuff tears. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:553–559
  9. Matsuda DK. A rare fracture, an even rarer treatment: The arthroscopic reduction and internal fixation of an isolated femoral head fracture. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:408–412
  10. Lubowitz JH. Anteromedial portal technique for the anterior cruciate ligament femoral socket: Pitfalls and solutions. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:95–101
  11. Sonnery-Cottet B, Barth J, Graveleau N, Fournier Y, Hager J-P, Chambat P. Arthroscopic identification of isolated tear of the posterolateral bundle of the anterior cruciate ligament. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:728–732
  12. Chiang E-R, Ma H-L, Wang S-T, Hung S-C, Chen T-H. Arthroscopic treatment for pigmented villonodular synovitis of the shoulder associated with massive rotator cuff tear. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:716–721
  13. Carpenter RD, Majumdar S, Ma CB. Magnetic resonance imaging of 3-dimensional in vivo tibiofemoral kinematics in ACL-reconstructed knees. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:760–766
  14. Nho SJ, Provencher MT, Seroyer ST, Romeo AA. Bioabsorbable anchors in glenohumeral shoulder surgery. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:788–793
  15. Sgaglione NA, Florence AS. Bone graft substitute plug failure with giant cell reaction in the treatment of osteochondral lesions of the distal femur: A report of two cases with operative revision. Arthroscopy. 2009;25:815–819
  16. Arthroscopy Journal Instructions for Authors. http://www.arthroscopyjournal.org/authorinfoAccessed May 12, 2009

PII: S0749-8063(09)00433-2

doi:10.1016/j.arthro.2009.05.003

Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
Volume 25, Issue 7 , Pages 705-706, July 2009