What’s Undermining in Your Outcomes? Anxiety and Depression?

A new study out of the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas Medical Center, published May 22, 2025, in the Journal of Knee Surgery, puts some data behind what many of you have suspected: mental health — and other barriers you can’t fix with a saw or suture — can quietly tank outcomes. “Presurgical Evaluation by a Health Behavior Psychologist Can Effectively Delineate Patient-Specific Barriers that Impact Treatment Outcomes after Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation,”