BACKGROUND Reports on outcome after posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstruction often contain both isolated PCL and combined knee ligament injuries. This makes it difficult to conclude on the outcome after reconstruction of isolated PCL injuries. PURPOSE To investigate the outcome after PCL reconstruction in patients with an isolated PCL injury and to compare this with the outcome of pat...

OBJECTIVE To test the clinimetric properties and to evaluate the internal consistency, validity and reliability of the Polish version of the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) in older patients with end-stage knee osteoarthritis undergoing total knee replacement (TKR). DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective cohort study performed at the university hospital and the outpatient clinic...

Methods: 644 patients with a primary unilateral ACL reconstruction and a concomitant full-thickness cartilage lesion treated simultaneously by debridement (n=78) or microfracture (n=88), or receiving no treatment (n=191) of the cartilage lesion, registered in the Norwegian and the Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry during 2005-2008 were included. Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Scor...

389 Correspondence A scientific approach to optimal treatment of cruciate ligament injuries Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. Sir—Which is the most effective treatment strategy for injuries to the ante...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Persian version of Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) in patients with isolated meniscus injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred people with isolated meniscal injury (29 females and 71 males with a mean age ± standard deviation [SD] = 32.37 ± 9.97 years) and fifty normal people with no kne...

BACKGROUND The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) was constructed in Sweden. This questionnaire has proved to be valid for several orthopedic interventions of the knee. It has been formally translated and validated in several languages, but not yet in Dutch. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the Dutch version of the KOOS questionnair...

BACKGROUND Matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI) is an established technique for the repair of knee chondral defects, although the correlation between clinical and radiological outcomes after surgery is poorly understood. PURPOSE To determine the correlation between clinical and radiological outcomes throughout the postoperative timeline to 5 years after MACI. STUDY DESI...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have described an increased risk of developing tibio-femoral osteoarthritis (TF OA), meniscal tears and bursitis among those with a trade as floor layers. The purpose of this study was to analyse symptomatic knee disorders among floor layers that were highly exposed to kneeling work tasks compared to graphic designers without knee-demanding work tasks. METHODS Data...