Favorable Patient-Reported, Clinical, and Functional Outcomes 2 Years After ACL Repair and InternalBrace Augmentation Compared With ACL Reconstruction and Healthy Controls.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently, interest in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) preservation and repair after proximal ACL tears has been resurrected. Although good clinical outcomes have been reported in the literature with adequate patient selection, to date detailed scientific evidence for the functional benefit of primary ACL repair with ligament augmentation is scarce.

Purpose

To compare patient-reported, clinical, and functional outcomes in patients 2 years after ACL repair and InternalBrace augmentation (ACL-IB) with age- and sex-matched patients 2 years after ACL reconstruction (ACL-R) and with matched healthy controls.

Study design

Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3.

Methods

In total, 29 patients 2 years after ACL-IB, 27 sex- and age- matched patients 2 years after

SUBMITTER: Muller S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543955 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature