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The Relationship of Knee-related Quality of Life With Function, Psychological Factors, Strength, Performance, and Postural Stability After ACL Reconstruction: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- The utility of psychological readiness scales in predicting return to sport: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Kinesiophobia contributes to worse functional and patient-reported outcome measures in Achilles tendinopathy: a systematic review.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Pooled it
- Strength development following a six-week risk reduction athletic development training program in men and women.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Article
- Psychosocial Factors Associated With Lower Extremity Reinjury Risk in Soccer Players: Contribution of Self-Confidence and Reinjury Anxiety.Journal of athletic training · 2024Article
- Drop Jump Performance Improves One Year Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Sportsmen Irrespectively of Psychological Patient Reported Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Patients Undergoing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.Sports healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundPatients after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) have decreased health-related quality of life (QoL) compared with healthy control participants. Few studies have verified the predictors of QoL using Quality of Life Outcome Measure Questionnaire for Chronic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency (ACL-QoL), and no study has verified the relationship of psychological factors and knee function with ACL-QoL in patients after ACLR. HYPOTHESIS: Knee functional status, muscle strength, performance in hop tests, postural stability, and psychological factors would be the predictors of QoL after ACLR. STUDY
designCross-sectional study. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 4.
methodsA total of 131 participants who had undergone ACLR at least 6 months previously were evaluated. QoL was assessed using ACL-QoL; knee functional status, using International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee (IKDC) and global rating scale (GRS); psychological readiness, using Anterior Cruciate Ligament Return to Sport after Injury Scale (ACL-RSI); kinesiophobia, using Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-17); knee strength, using isokinetic dynamometer; performance, using single-leg hop tests; and postural stability, using Biodex Balance System. Pearson's linear correlation and stepwise hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses were performed to verify the predictors of QoL.
resultsACL-QoL showed a moderate correlation with IKDC (
conclusionKnee functional status, psychological readiness, and kinesiophobia were the predictors of knee-related QoL in patients after ACLR. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: These results can assist clinicians in the therapeutic monitoring of the factors that may interfere with QoL in patients after ACLR.
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