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Article History

Received: 5 December 2022

Accepted: 30 January 2023

First Online: 24 March 2023

Declarations

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: This study was approved by the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 2021.073), given governance approval by Western Health and was registered on the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry on 27/8/21 under Trial Number ACTRN12621001162808. Written informed consent will be obtained by the research staff from all study participants prior to enrolment. Patients are free to withdraw from the trial at any time without providing a reason. Details outlining participants’ rights to access their data, study results, how study data will be used, and the processes in place to ensure that individual confidentiality is protected are all specified in the participant information and consent form.

: Not applicable.Not applicable—no identifying images or other personal or clinical details of participants are presented here or will be presented in reports of the trial results. The participant information materials and informed consent form are available from the corresponding author on request.

: This study has been allocated funding by Arthrex Inc via the Investigator-Initiated Research Grant. This funding was sought and approved only following final protocol approval and ethical and local governance approval. This funding will be utilised to supply the GNRB for use in the study and for the employment of a part-time research assistant. All external funding sources had no input into the design or outcome of this study.