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Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex
Functional tests are used to facilitate return-to-sports decisions after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). This study presents comprehensive physical fitness test data acquired in highly active patients within the first year after ACLR, for comparison between different grafts, age gr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7183074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports8030030 |
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author | Csapo, Robert Pointner, Helmut Hoser, Christian Gföller, Peter Raschner, Christian Fink, Christian |
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description | Functional tests are used to facilitate return-to-sports decisions after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). This study presents comprehensive physical fitness test data acquired in highly active patients within the first year after ACLR, for comparison between different grafts, age groups, and sexes. The outcomes from a specific seven-item test battery and isokinetic strength test data were extracted from a patient database. Results were compared to normative data from age- and sex-matched controls and between subgroups of patients. A total of 245 patients (94 women, 23.8 ± 8.4 years, pre-injury Tegner 7.4 ± 1.6) were tested 185 ± 44 days after surgery. In 116 patients (47.3%), one or more test results were classified as “poor” or “very poor” after comparison with normative data, with failures being most frequent during single-leg squat jump and plyometric strength tests. Test failures were more prevalent in adults than in adolescents <19 years (61.4%–62.2% vs. 24.5%, p < 0.001) and in men (61.6% vs. 24.5%, p < 0.001), but no differences were found between grafts. Isokinetic knee extensor strength was lower by 24.1% on the injured side. Six months after ACLR, nearly 50% of highly active patients presented with strength and functional fitness deficits. These deficits are particularly prevalent in older patients and men. |
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spelling | pubmed-71830742020-05-01 Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex Csapo, Robert Pointner, Helmut Hoser, Christian Gföller, Peter Raschner, Christian Fink, Christian Sports (Basel) Article Functional tests are used to facilitate return-to-sports decisions after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). This study presents comprehensive physical fitness test data acquired in highly active patients within the first year after ACLR, for comparison between different grafts, age groups, and sexes. The outcomes from a specific seven-item test battery and isokinetic strength test data were extracted from a patient database. Results were compared to normative data from age- and sex-matched controls and between subgroups of patients. A total of 245 patients (94 women, 23.8 ± 8.4 years, pre-injury Tegner 7.4 ± 1.6) were tested 185 ± 44 days after surgery. In 116 patients (47.3%), one or more test results were classified as “poor” or “very poor” after comparison with normative data, with failures being most frequent during single-leg squat jump and plyometric strength tests. Test failures were more prevalent in adults than in adolescents <19 years (61.4%–62.2% vs. 24.5%, p < 0.001) and in men (61.6% vs. 24.5%, p < 0.001), but no differences were found between grafts. Isokinetic knee extensor strength was lower by 24.1% on the injured side. Six months after ACLR, nearly 50% of highly active patients presented with strength and functional fitness deficits. These deficits are particularly prevalent in older patients and men. MDPI 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7183074/ /pubmed/32155933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports8030030 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Csapo, Robert Pointner, Helmut Hoser, Christian Gföller, Peter Raschner, Christian Fink, Christian Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title | Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title_full | Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title_fullStr | Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title_short | Physical Fitness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Influence of Graft, Age, and Sex |
title_sort | physical fitness after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: influence of graft, age, and sex |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7183074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports8030030 |
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