Passing return to sports tests after ACL reconstruction is associated with greater likelihood for return to sport but fail to identify second injury risk

A limited number of patients return to sport (RTS) after an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) and patients who RTS have a relatively high risk for second ACL injury. The purpose of the current study was to compare the results of a test battery between patients who returned to the pre-injury level of sport (RTS group) and patients who did not (NO-RTS group).It was hypothesized that the RTS group showed better test results.

Source: The Knee - March 31, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Wouter Welling, Anne Benjaminse, Koen Lemmink, Alli Gokeler Source Type: research