Only 10% of Patients With a Concomitant MCL Injury Return to Their Preinjury Level of Sport 1 Year After ACL Reconstruction: A Matched Comparison With Isolated ACL Reconstruction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for an increased understanding of the way a concomitant medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury may influence outcome after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.

Hypothesis

Patients with a concomitant MCL injury would have inferior clinical outcomes compared with a matched cohort of patients undergoing ACL reconstruction without an MCL injury.

Study design

Matched registry-based cohort study; case-control.

Level of evidence

Level 3.

Methods

Data from the Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry and a local rehabilitation outcome registry were utilized. Patients who had undergone a primary ACL reconstruction with a concomitant nonsurgically treated MCL injury (ACL + MCL group) were matched with patients who had undergo

SUBMITTER: Svantesson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10732101 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature