Younger Patients and Men Achieve Higher Outcome Scores Than Older Patients and Women After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that some of the most commonly used functional performance and validated clinical scores for ACL reconstruction are superior for patients who are younger, male, and have returned to preinjury sport. Reference to these data allows clinicians to more effectively evaluate a patient based on their age, gender, and sport status when making return to sport and rehabilitation decisions. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study. PMID: 28718171 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research