Authors' reply

摘要

We thank Dr. Jo for his detailed and insightful response to our article, and for his numerous contributions to the field of arthroscopy. We also would like to state that we had no intentions of discrediting Dr. Jo in any manner. Instead, we were aiming to study the clinical usefulness of the SPK with and without half-hitches compared to other commonly used knots. Our intention was to validate the SPK in a manner relevant to our current clinical practice with No. 2 Hi-Fi suture, tying the SPK in the manner described in the original article by Jo et al. Jo et al. subsequently tested the knot with Ethibond suture and PDS II suture, which we do not commonly use any longer.In our article the SPK with a single half-hitch was termed the "modified SPK" in an effort to simplify the language of our article rather than to rename the knot originally described by Jo et al. We agree with Dr. Jo's statement that additional half-hitches do not represent a modification of the knot itself.