{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,13]],"date-time":"2026-09-13T09:05:25Z","timestamp":1789290325502,"version":"build-2803163510"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Indian Orthopaedic Research Group","issue":"8","content-domain":{"domain":["jocr.co.in"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Jocr"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Introduction: Patient-reported outcome measures have moved to the center of orthopedic and spine research, yet many legacy instruments\u2014the VAS, ODI, KOOS, and generic health-utility tools\u2014suffer from ceiling effects that blunt their ability to discriminate excellent outcomes from merely good ones. The concept of the \u201cforgotten joint\u201d reframes success around the patient\u2019s ability to forget that a joint was ever replaced, and the Forgotten Joint Score (FJS) operationalizes this idea with demonstrated responsiveness, low ceiling effects, and strong measurement properties across arthroplasty and joint-preserving procedures. This paradigm is now being carried into the axial skeleton through the Forgotten Spine Score (FSS) and a cervical adaptation (FS3-C), which quantify spine awareness rather than residual disability. This editorial examines the evidence underpinning the FJS, the early validation of its spinal analogues, their clinical and health-system relevance in an era of value-based care, and the caveats\u2014cultural adaptation, digital exclusion, and an embryonic spinal evidence base\u2014that must temper their adoption. The most successful operation, ultimately, is the one the patient is free to forget.\n\nKeywords: Forgotten Joint Score, Forgotten Spine Score, patient-reported outcome measures, ceiling effect, value-based healthcare, arthroplasty, spine surgery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.13107\/jocr.2026.v16.i08.7764","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,7]],"date-time":"2026-08-07T11:25:01Z","timestamp":1786101901000},"page":"1-6","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13107\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Forgotten Joint and Forgotten Spine: Recalibrating Success around the Patient\u2019s Experience"],"prefix":"10.13107","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Sathish","family":"Muthu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"[1] Department of Research Methods, Orthopaedic Research Group, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, [2] Central Research Laboratory, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital, Vinayaka Mission\u2019s Research Foundation (Deemed to be University), Puducherry, India,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dhibin Vikash Kolarpatti","family":"Ponnusamy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"[1] Department of Research Methods, Orthopaedic Research Group, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, [3] Department of Orthopaedics, Government Medical College, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vibhu Krishnan","family":"Viswanathan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"[1] Department of Research Methods, Orthopaedic Research Group, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, [4] Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ashok","family":"Shyam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"[5] Indian Orthopaedic Research Group, Thane, Maharashtra, India, [6] Department of Orthopaedics, Sancheti Institute for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, Maharashtra, India."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"5271","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"container-title":["Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,13]],"date-time":"2026-09-13T08:45:29Z","timestamp":1789289129000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/jocr.co.in\/wp\/2026\/08\/the-forgotten-joint-and-forgotten-spine-recalibrating-success-around-the-patients-experience-2\/"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"8","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13107\/jocr.2026.v16.i08.7764","relation":{},"ISSN":["2321-3817"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2321-3817","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Research Article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"Yes","name":"crosschecked","label":"CrossChecked"},{"value":"Yes","name":"peer_reviewed","label":"Peer Reviewed"},{"value":"10.13107\/jocr.2026.v16.i08.7764","name":"published","label":"Published"},{"value":"Creative Commons Attribution","name":"license","label":"License","explanation":{"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"},"group":{"name":"rights","label":"Rights"}}]}}