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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. |
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