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ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2025

Classifiers of anterior cruciate ligament status in female and male adolescents using return-to-activity criteria.

Céline I Girard, Nicholas J Romanchuk, Michael J Del Bel, Sasha Carsen, Adrian D C Chan, Daniel L Benoit

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Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Céline I GirardDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6546-7790
Nicholas J RomanchukDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Michael J Del BelSchool of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6615-0170
Sasha CarsenDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, CHEO, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8180-9770
Adrian D C ChanOttawa-Carleton Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2111-247X
Daniel L BenoitDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8062-2114

Funding

CHEO Research InstituteNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Ottawa Department of Surgery
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeA lack of standardization exists for functional tasks in return-to-activity (RTA) guidelines for adolescents with anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACLi). Identifying the variables that discern ACLi status among adolescents is a first step in the creation of such guidelines following surgical reconstruction. This study investigated the use of classification models to discern ACLi status of adolescents with and without injury using spatiotemporal variables from functional tasks typically used in RTA guidelines for adults.

methodsSixty-four adolescents with ACLi and 70 uninjured adolescents completed single-limb hops, lunges, squats, countermovement jumps and drop-vertical jumps. Jumping distances, heights, and depths were collected. Decision trees (DTs) were used to classify ACLi status and were evaluated using the F-measure (F

resultsA five-variable model classified ACLi status with an accuracy of 67.5% (F

conclusionsAmong the DT models, females were better able to classify ACLi status compared to males, highlighting the importance of sex-specific rehabilitation guidelines for adolescents. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III.

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Anterior Cruciate Ligament InjuriesReturn to SportAdolescentAnterior Cruciate Ligament ReconstructionDecision TreesFemaleHumansMaleSex Factorsfunctional abilitymachine learningpaediatricsex differencesingle limb hopspatiotemporal measure

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