Dr. Fabricant Research
Dr. Fabricant is an accomplished researcher, with over 300 peer-reviewed publications, 20 book chapters, and one textbook in circulation. He has received multiple institutional, national, and international awards for clinical research, including the Herodicus Award (AOSSM), the Excellence in Research Award (AOSSM), the Promising Career Award (PRiSM Society), and the Richard S. Laskin Young Attending Resident Teaching Award (HSS), among others. Dr. Fabricant currently serves on several research and education committees in two international professional societies (POSNA and PRiSM).
He is a member of several pediatric orthopedic and sports medicine research consortiums, through which he participates in cutting-edge multicenter clinical research studies with many of the most prolific researchers in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine. He is an active fellow of both the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
He also serves on the editorial board of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (CORR), on the Peer Review Committee for the Orthopaedic Research and education Foundation (OREF), and as a reviewer for several academic orthopaedic journals including the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM), Arthroscopy, and the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics (JPO).
A full list of his research publications can be found here.
May 1, 2024
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Transosseous Repair of Isolated Posterior Medial Meniscal Root Injuries in Children and Adolescents
This technical note demonstrates the transosseous repair of isolated posterior medial meniscal root injuries in children and adolescents, including tear visualization on magnetic resonance imaging and during arthroscopy, operative technique, and postoperative management.
May 1, 2024
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Virtual Reality Distraction Is No Better Than Simple Distraction Techniques for Reducing Pain and Anxiety During Pediatric Orthopaedic Outpatient Procedures: A Randomized Controlled Trial
During in-office cast and pin removal in pediatric patients, simple distraction techniques such as tablet video viewing are as effective as higher-fidelity VR headset video and interactive games in minimizing objective measures of procedural pain and subjective measures of pain and anxiety.
April 29, 2024
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Can Return-to-Sport Rates be Taken at Face Value in the Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Literature?
Understanding how rates of sport participation may naturally change during childhood is crucial to interpreting and reporting RTS rates for these patients. We believe that more studies are needed to quantify the many factors affecting natural attrition rates of sport participation in young athletes (by both age and sport) to
February 7, 2024
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Strong Association Between Growth Hormone Therapy and Proximal Tibial Physeal Avulsion Fractures in Children and Adolescents: A Case-Control Study
This study demonstrates that the proportion of subjects who sustained proximal tibial physeal avulsion fractures and were receiving recombinant human growth hormone therapy at the time of injury was significantly greater than that of an age, sex, and body mass index-matched control group with midshaft tibial fractures (11% versus 0%,
January 1, 2024
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Practical Clinical Research Design and Application
Every practicing physician, surgeon, advanced practice provider, and allied health professional interacts regularly with peer-reviewed literature: either while creating it, or consuming it.
August 31, 2023
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Validation of the ACL-RSI Scale in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
The ACL-RSI scale is valid to use with pediatric and adolescent patients. The 6-item scale may be a better choice because it has fewer redundancies and minimizes the risk of questionnaire fatigue.
June 4, 2023
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Simultaneous anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and implant-mediated guided growth to correct genu valgum in skeletally immature patients
The results of the current study indicate that concomitant ACL reconstruction and lower extremity coronal plane angular deformity correction is a safe approach to treat coronal plane angular deformity concomitantly with ACL reconstruction in young patients who present with an acute ACL tear.
May 30, 2023
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Extension of Tibial Spine Fractures Beyond the Tibial Spine: An MRI Analysis of 54 Patients
This study demonstrated that TSF beds were larger in younger patients, extended to the posterior third of the epiphysis in 54% of cases, and should be examined carefully for extension into weightbearing regions of the tibial plateau. In pediatric patients, the TSF often involves more of the tibial plateau than
October 1, 2022
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Techniques in Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
This paper reviews pediatric anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) techniques, including combined extra- and intra-articular, all-epiphyseal, and transphyseal approaches, which are selected according to skeletal maturity to minimize the risk of growth plate injury.
January 21, 2022
Dr. Peter Fabricant
The Incidence of Pediatric Tibial Spine Fractures Is Greater and Peaks Later in Male Patients
This study confirms a difference in incidence by sex for pediatric tibial spine fractures, with male patients having a greater peak incidence that also occurs at an older age. Most cases in this study were treated nonoperatively.
June 15, 2020
Dr. Peter Fabricant
Development and Validation of the Hospital for Special Surgery Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Preoperative Expectations Survey
The Hospital for Special Surgery ACL-expectations score is a patient-derived, tested and reliable preoperative expectations measure with excellent psychometrics for active adults undergoing ACLR. We suggest future clinical studies in ACLR to incorporate this tool as a preoperative measure of patient expectations.
May 18, 2020
Dr. Peter Fabricant
CORR Synthesis: Can Guided Growth for Angular Deformity Correction Be Applied to Management of Pediatric Patellofemoral Instability?
In children and teens, coronal plane angular deformity is well described, and plays a role in the pathogenesis of numerous intraarticular knee pathologies, including patellar instability. Unlike in adults, where osteotomy would be needed to achieve correction of angular deformity, coronal plane angular deformity correction in skeletally immature patients can