86 Defining return to sport in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury recovery with mobile markerless motion capture: A cross-sectional analysis of factors associated with return to activity
Objectives/Goals: Approximately 250,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears occur annually in the USA. Symptoms generally improve after ACL reconstruction (ACLR), but 20% of athletes do not return to sport. It is not clear how biomechanical function and mental health impact return to activity, so...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Clinical and Translational Science |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866124007623/type/journal_article |
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| Summary: | Objectives/Goals: Approximately 250,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears occur annually in the USA. Symptoms generally improve after ACL reconstruction (ACLR), but 20% of athletes do not return to sport. It is not clear how biomechanical function and mental health impact return to activity, so the purpose of this study is to evaluate their effect on return to activity following ACLR. Methods/Study Population: Patients age 18 years and older who have undergone primary ACLR at a single institution who are one year out from their initial procedure will be recruited by email. Patients will be excluded if they had a concomitant or subsequent ligamentous knee injury in the follow-up period since their index procedure. Additionally, patients will be excluded if they do not have access to a mobile phone with video recording capability. The primary outcome will be joint angle kinematics and postural balance metrics derived from patient recorded mobile-phone videos while performing several provocative exercises (sit-to-stand, Star Excursion Balance test). Patients will also be given surveys assessing knee symptoms, psychological readiness for return to sport, mental health, athletic history, and current return to sport level. Results/Anticipated Results: We predict that psychological readiness for return to sport following ACL injury and biomechanical postural stability will each be independently associated with return to sport timing following ACLR. Additionally, we anticipate that psychological readiness, as measured by higher ACL-Return to Sport Index scores, will be more strongly associated with return to sport compared to biomechanical movement quality (better gross postural control on skeletal modeling). In other words, higher psychological readiness for return to sport will have a stronger independent association with return to sport level compared to biomechanical movement quality measures. Discussion/Significance of Impact: This study also aims to define return to sport in terms of biomechanics and psychological readiness in an athletically heterogenous population. Additionally, we will test the feasibility of patient-led, remote, mobile, marker less motion capture for assessment of biomechanical function and distribution of patient-reported outcome measures. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-8661 |