NCT06050005

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidade da Coruña · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Ligament Injury
• Ligament Rupture
• Ligament Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Diagnostic test through functional tests and comparison of scales applied to participants in the pre-surgical and post-surgical period.	The protocol is based on the ligamentization stages, since the bibliography relates the ligamentization process with rehabilitation. These stages are necrosis, revascularization, cellular priorities and collagen formation, and different care is required for each stage. Taking these aspects into account, the authors developed recommendations to establish a protocol divided by the evaluation phases of the present work. Users should only move on to the next phase if they achieve the expected results, or that makes the total duration of each protocol vary from user to user. tests and scales will be evaluated before surgery, after 6 weeks of surgery and at the end of treatment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-15
• Primary completion: 2024-07-15
• Completion: 2024-09-15
• First posted: 2023-09-22
• Last updated: 2023-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal