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01-06-2016 | ACL Update: Objective Measures on Knee Instability (V Musahl, Section Editor)

ACL update: objective measures on knee instability: an introduction

Authors: Volker Musahl, Anil Ranawat

Published in: Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine | Issue 2/2016

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Successful anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is defined by the absence of osteoarthritis (OA) and complete return of knee function. The difficulty with measuring these outcomes is that OA has to be measured at up to 10 years post-surgery and testing of knee function requires complicated and not readily available tools, such as dynamic stereo radiography (DSX). However, there are several new measures of dynamic and static knee instability that can be used by clinicians and scientists to measure outcomes. …

Title: ACL update: objective measures on knee instability: an introduction
Authors: Volker Musahl
Anil Ranawat
Publication date: 01-06-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine / Issue 2/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1935-9748
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12178-016-9334-y

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