Younger Patients and Men Achieve Higher Outcome Scores Than Older Patients and Women After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | Zendy

Kate E. Webster | Zendy; Julian A. Feller | Zendy

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Younger Patients and Men Achieve Higher Outcome Scores Than Older Patients and Women After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Author(s) -

Kate E. Webster,

Julian A. Feller

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

clinical orthopaedics and related research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178

H-Index - 204

eISSN - 1528-1132

pISSN - 0009-921X

DOI - 10.1007/s11999-017-5418-2

Subject(s) - medicine , anterior cruciate ligament , anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction , physical therapy , sports medicine , cohort study , cohort , surgery

There is some evidence that functional performance and validated outcome scores differ according to the gender, age, and sport participation status of a patient after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. However, the impact of these three factors, and interaction among them, has not been studied across a large relatively homogeneous group of patients to better elucidate their impact.

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