Quadriceps Strength Is Influenced by Skeletal Maturity in Adolescents Recovering From Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Conclusions: After ACLR, adolescent patients with open physes had higher quadriceps strength compared with patients with closed physes. Overall, those skeletally less mature patients actually fared better on the functional strength tests, suggesting that functional recovery is not hindered by the presence of an incompletely closed physis. Level of Evidence: Level III—retrospective comparative study.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Sports Medicine Source Type: research