background: the knee joint is prone to injury because of its complexity and weight-bearing function. anterior cruciate ligament (acl) ruptures happen in young and physically active population and can result in instability, meniscal tears, and articular cartilage damage. the aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of lachman and anterior drawer test in acl injury in compare with arthroscop...

A prospective study was undertaken to compare the accuracy of the Lachman test, anterior drawer test and jerk test with the KT1000 knee arthrometer in patients with proven anterior cruciate ligament deficiency. The Lachman and anterior drawer tests were found to be the most accurate indicators of anterior cruciate ligament deficiency. The KT1000 knee arthrometer was found to be totally inaccura...

  Background: The knee joint is prone to injury because of its complexity and weight-bearing function. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures happen in young and physically active population and can result in instability, meniscal tears, and articular cartilage damage. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of Lachman and anterior drawer test in ACL injury in compare with arthrosc...

BACKGROUND Although traumatic anterior shoulder instability is common, the usefulness of various physical examination tests as tools for the diagnosis of this condition has been studied infrequently. We hypothesized that (1) such tests would be specific but not sensitive for this condition, (2) the usefulness of the anterior drawer test would be limited because of pain during the test, and (3) ...

CONTEXT Joint arthrometers have been developed to help determine the severity of ligament sprains. OBJECTIVE To establish intratester and intertester reliability of the talar inversion and anterior drawer tests using the LigMaster. DESIGN Intratester reliability was investigated using a repeated-measures design. Intertester reliability was investigated using 2 different clinicians testing s...

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the lever sign test and the widely used basic tests of the Lachman, anterior drawer and pivot shift tests, both under anaesthesia and without anaesthesia, according to the gold standard diagnostic arthroscopic results in patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The study included 117 patients, diagnosed with A...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of consensus regarding the magnitude of load for performing the anterior drawer test in evaluating acute ankle injuries. PURPOSE To determine how much load should be applied during the anterior drawer test to detect the integrity of the anterior talofibular ligament. METHODS First, the anterior-posterior load-displacement response of nine cadaveric ankles was meas...

BACKGROUND The latest version of the navigation system for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has the supplementary ability to assess knee stability before and after ACL reconstruction. In this study, we compared navigation data between clinical grades in ACL-deficient knees and also analyzed correlation between clinical grading and navigation data. METHODS 150 ACL deficient knee...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical results of the reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament by transtibial, transportal, and outside-in techniques. METHODS This was a retrospective study on 90 patients (ACL reconstruction with autologous flexor tendons) operated between August 2009 and June 2012, by the medial transportal (30), transtibial (30), and "outside-in" (30) techniques. The fol...