Knee Functionality Recovery Indicators in Athletes Submitted to Ligamentoplasty of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Universidade da Coruña

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Ligament Rupture; Ligament Injury; Ligament Disorders

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Diagnostic test through functional tests and comparison of scales applied to participants in the pre-surgical and post-surgical period.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06050005

Universidade da Coruña

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are recurrent, especially in sports. There is still no consensus on the characterization of functional indicators in this clinical condition, as well as their correlation with measuring instruments and clinical functional tests. It is intended to study the changes in functionality of users undergoing this surgery, aiming with functional assessment scales at different times of recovery. This will allow deciding on more adapted recovery strategies, which can meet the musculoskeletal requirements of the user.

Full description

It is proposed to carry by carrying out quasi-experimental, quantitative and analytical studies. The sample will consist of athletes who have started recovering from ACL surgery and who meet the previously established inclusion and exclusion criteria.

The study will use and compare functional tests (Star Excursion Balance Test, Lateral Step Down Test and Weight-Bearing Lunge Test) with measurement instruments: Knee and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS), Lyshom Knee Scoring Scale, Lower Extremity Functional Score (LEFS), Return to Sport After Injury Scale (ACL-RSI) and IKDC Subjective Knee Evaluation Form.

The intervention will be performed on individual athletes who have had anterior cruciate ligament injury for the first time or recurrence of this ligament in the same knee or injury in the contralateral knee.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Start of physiotherapy in the preoperative context and continuation of recovery up to 2 weeks after surgery; age equal to or greater than 18 years; With or without meniscal injury; Be able to correctly fill in the assessment instruments and complete the Informed Consent Form;

Exclusion criteria

• Concomitant bilateral injury/history of surgery or contralateral dysfunction; meniscal suture; cartilaginous injury; injury to the internal lateral ligament, external lateral ligament and posterior cruciate ligament; concomitant intra and extra-articular plastic surgery; individuals with recent heart disease, intermittent claudication, neuropathies and cognitive alterations.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental - rehabilitation activity

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will be included in this arm.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Diagnostic test through functional tests and comparison of scales applied to participants in the pre-surgical and post-surgical period.