Quadriceps Strength Symmetry Does Not Modify Gait Mechanics After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Return-to-Sport Training.
Quadriceps Strength Symmetry Does Not Modify Gait Mechanics After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Return-to-Sport Training.
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股四头肌力量对称性不会改变前交叉韧带重建、康复和回归运动训练后的步态力学。
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10.1177/0363546520980079
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2021-03
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Snyder-Mackler L
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Arhos EK;Capin JJ;Buchanan TS;Snyder-Mackler L
After anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, biomechanical asymmetries during gait are highly prevalent, persistent, and linked to posttraumatic knee osteoarthritis. Quadriceps strength is an important clinical measure associated with pre-operative gait asymmetries and post-operative function and is a primary criterion for return-to-sport clearance. Evidence relating symmetry in quadriceps strength with gait biomechanics is limited to pre-operative and early rehabilitation time points prior to return-to-sport training. To determine the relationship between symmetry in isometric quadriceps strength and gait biomechanics after return-to-sport training in athletes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. We hypothesized that as quadriceps strength symmetry increases, athletes will demonstrate more symmetric knee joint biomechanics including tibiofemoral joint loading during gait. Cross-sectional study. Seventy-six of 79 athletes enrolled in ACL-SPORTS were participants for this study after completing post-operative rehabilitation and 10 return-to-sport training sessions (7.1 ± 2.0 months after ACLR). All participants completed biomechanical walking gait analysis and isometric quadriceps strength assessment using an electromechanical dynamometer. Quadriceps strength was calculated using a limb symmetry index (involved limb value/ uninvolved limb value x 100%). The biomechanical variables of interest included: peak knee flexion angle (PKFA), peak knee internal extension moment, sagittal plane knee excursion at weight acceptance and mid-stance, quadriceps muscle force at PKFA, and peak medial compartment contact force. Spearman’s rho (ρ) correlation coefficients were used to determine the relationship between limb symmetry indexes in quadriceps strength and each biomechanical variable separately; alpha was set to 0.05. Of the 76 participants, 27 (35%) demonstrated asymmetries in quadriceps strength, defined by quadriceps strength symmetry <90% (n=23) or >110% (n=4) (QI range: 56.9%-131.7%). For the biomechanical variables of interest, 67% demonstrated asymmetry in peak knee flexion angle, 68% and 83% in knee excursion during weight acceptance and midstance, respectively, 74% in internal peak knee extension moment, 57% in medial compartment contact force, and 74% in quadriceps muscle force. There were no significant correlations between quadriceps strength index and limb symmetry indexes for any biomechanical variable following return-to-sport training (p>0.129). Among those who completed return-to-sport training after ACL reconstruction, subsequent quadriceps strength symmetry is not correlated with the persistent asymmetries in gait biomechanics. After reaching a threshold of quadriceps strength, restoring strength alone may not ameliorate gait asymmetries and current clinical interventions and return-to-sport training may not adequately target gait. Work from @elanna_arhos, @doclsmack, @JacobCapin suggests that in those well rehabilitated after ACLR, quadriceps strength is not related to symmetric gait mechanics. Developing gait-specific interventions may be a critical step to mitigating aberrant gait mechanics after ACLR.
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影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Arundale, Amelia J. H.;Capin, Jacob J.;Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
通讯作者:
Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
Di Stasi, Stephanie L.;Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
通讯作者:
Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
影响因子:
2.8
作者:
Capin, Jacob J.;Zarzycki, Ryan;Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
通讯作者:
Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
DOI:
10.2106/00004623-199808000-00006
发表时间:
1998-08-01
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
Irrgang, JJ;Snyder-Mackler, L;Harner, CD
通讯作者:
Harner, CD
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
Andriacchi, TP;Dyrby, CO
通讯作者:
Dyrby, CO