Journal article
Joint awareness after ACL reconstruction: patient-reported outcomes measured with the Forgotten Joint Score-12.
- Behrend H Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9007, St. Gallen, Switzerland. henrik.behrend@kssg.ch.
- Zdravkovic V Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9007, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
- Giesinger JM Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Giesinger K Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9007, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
- 2016-10-21
Published in:
- Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA. - 2017
ACL reconstruction
Forgotten Joint Score-12 (FJS-12)
Joint awareness
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs)
Adolescent
Adult
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Arthroscopy
Awareness
Female
Humans
Knee Joint
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
Perception
Treatment Outcome
Young Adult
English
PURPOSE
To measure joint awareness in patients who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and to investigate medium- and long-term results of the procedure.
METHODS
All patients who had undergone ACL reconstruction with the same arthroscopic surgical technique at our institution between 2011 and 2014 (medium-term follow-up group (Group I)) or between 2000 and 2005 (long-term follow-up group (Group II)) were considered for inclusion in the study. A group of healthy controls were recruited to obtain reference values for the FJS-12 (Forgotten Joint Score-12). Propensity score matching was applied to improve comparability of patients and healthy controls in terms of sex and age.
RESULTS
Fifty-eight patients of the Group I (mean follow-up 31.5 (SD13.4) months, range 12-54), 57 patients of the Group II (mean follow-up 139 (SD15.2) months, range 120-179), and the healthy control samples (100 individuals) were analysed. Significantly lower FJS-12 was found in both groups (Group I: 71.6 and Group II: 70.1), compared to the two matched control groups (88.1 and 90.0).
CONCLUSIONS
The concept of joint awareness was successfully applied to evaluate medium- and long-term results of ACL reconstruction. The clinical relevance of this study is that it extends the construct of joint awareness as a patient-reported outcome parameter to ACL reconstruction surgery.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Level III.
To measure joint awareness in patients who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and to investigate medium- and long-term results of the procedure.
METHODS
All patients who had undergone ACL reconstruction with the same arthroscopic surgical technique at our institution between 2011 and 2014 (medium-term follow-up group (Group I)) or between 2000 and 2005 (long-term follow-up group (Group II)) were considered for inclusion in the study. A group of healthy controls were recruited to obtain reference values for the FJS-12 (Forgotten Joint Score-12). Propensity score matching was applied to improve comparability of patients and healthy controls in terms of sex and age.
RESULTS
Fifty-eight patients of the Group I (mean follow-up 31.5 (SD13.4) months, range 12-54), 57 patients of the Group II (mean follow-up 139 (SD15.2) months, range 120-179), and the healthy control samples (100 individuals) were analysed. Significantly lower FJS-12 was found in both groups (Group I: 71.6 and Group II: 70.1), compared to the two matched control groups (88.1 and 90.0).
CONCLUSIONS
The concept of joint awareness was successfully applied to evaluate medium- and long-term results of ACL reconstruction. The clinical relevance of this study is that it extends the construct of joint awareness as a patient-reported outcome parameter to ACL reconstruction surgery.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Level III.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1007/s00167-016-4357-x
- PMID 27761622
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/563
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