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ArticleTitle Knee Functions and a Return to Sports Activity in Competitive Athletes Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

AuthorList Yoshihito Nakayama, Yasumasa Shirai, Tetsuya Narita,Atsushi Mori and Kaoru Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nippon Medical School

Language EN

Volume 67

Issue 3

Year 2000

Page 172-176

Received December 2, 1999

Accepted January 6, 2000

Keywords athletic rehabilitation, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, hamstring grafts

Abstract We investigated knee functions and a return to sports in 50 competitive athlete patients treated with arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using double-looped STG augmented by woven polyester at a 1-year follow-up. There were 25 males and 25 females with a mean age of 24.3 years (range: 19-39 years). The majority of preinjury sports were basketball, volleyball and soccer. Athletic rehabilitation including agility training and sports-specific training was started at 12 weeks. Fourty patients (80%) was rated as normal or nearly normal on the assessment of International Knee Documentation Commitee postoperatively. Fourty-eight patients (96%) obtained full range of motion, and the mean quadriceps muscle strength of the injured side was 91.3%of that of the uninjured side. As for a return to sports, 46 patients (92%) were able to do fully competitive sports at a mean of 8.1 postoperative months. These results suggest that arthroscopic reconstruction using augmented double-looped STG allows early athletic rehabilitation, and lead satisfactory outcome as well as a reliable and early return to preinjury level of sport activity for the majority of the competitive athlete patients.

Correspondence to Yoshihito Nakayama, Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan.

ArticleTitle	Knee Functions and a Return to Sports Activity in Competitive Athletes Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
AuthorList	Yoshihito Nakayama, Yasumasa Shirai, Tetsuya Narita,Atsushi Mori and Kaoru Kobayashi
Affiliation	Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nippon Medical School
Language	EN
Volume	67
Issue	3
Year	2000
Page	172-176
Received	December 2, 1999
Accepted	January 6, 2000
Keywords	athletic rehabilitation, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, hamstring grafts
Abstract	We investigated knee functions and a return to sports in 50 competitive athlete patients treated with arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using double-looped STG augmented by woven polyester at a 1-year follow-up. There were 25 males and 25 females with a mean age of 24.3 years (range: 19-39 years). The majority of preinjury sports were basketball, volleyball and soccer. Athletic rehabilitation including agility training and sports-specific training was started at 12 weeks. Fourty patients (80%) was rated as normal or nearly normal on the assessment of International Knee Documentation Commitee postoperatively. Fourty-eight patients (96%) obtained full range of motion, and the mean quadriceps muscle strength of the injured side was 91.3%of that of the uninjured side. As for a return to sports, 46 patients (92%) were able to do fully competitive sports at a mean of 8.1 postoperative months. These results suggest that arthroscopic reconstruction using augmented double-looped STG allows early athletic rehabilitation, and lead satisfactory outcome as well as a reliable and early return to preinjury level of sport activity for the majority of the competitive athlete patients.
Correspondence to	Yoshihito Nakayama, Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan.