Effect of Different Preconditioning Protocols on Anterior Knee Laxity After ACL Reconstruction with Four Commonly Used Grafts

Conclusions:
Preconditioning had no significant effect on the progressive increase of anterior tibial translation from the first cycle to cycle 250 for any of the graft tissues tested.

Clinical Relevance:
On the basis of these results, current preconditioning methods appear to be ineffective in reducing progressive increases in anterior knee laxity from cyclic loading.

Source: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - July 1, 2015 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Boguszewski, D. V., Joshi, N. B., Wang, D., Markolf, K. L., Petrigliano, F. A., McAllister, D. R. Tags: Knee Scientific Articles Source Type: research