The feasibility objectives are:~Recruitment~To establish an estimate of the proportion of patients screened who are eligible for inclusion, and of those, the proportion who consent.~To establish an estimate of the proportion of eligible patients with medium/large tears versus massive tears.~Surgery -to confirm agreement among surgeons regarding the protocol's standardized surgical techniques of both groups.~Clinical objectives for observational purposes only are as follows:~Patient reported and clinical outcomes.~Number of failures in each group (defined as additional surgery and/or having <12% improvement in SANE score from baseline).
The purpose of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of a full randomized trial design.