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The Timing of Rehabilitation Commencement After Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

One of the most common injuries of the knee joint is a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Most authors believe that early rehabilitation of patients after ACL reconstruction promotes better treatment outcomes. Less is known about the influence of the time that passes from injury to surgical reconstruction. Therefore, the goal of this study was to assess the dependence of treatment outcomes of ACL on injury-to-reconstruction and reconstruction-to-rehabilitation time lags. The study included 30 patients of the mean age 34 ± 7 years with trauma-related rupture of ACL and its surgical reconstruction. The time range from ligament rupture to its reconstruction was 120-180 days and from reconstruction to rehabilitation was 1-120 days. Postsurgical rehabilitation outcomes were assessed with the Lysholm knee scale and the IKDC 2000 subjective knee evaluation form. The scales were applied before and after rehabilitation. We found distinct improvements in all physical symptoms in the damaged knee joint, regardless of the time elapsed from trauma to ACL reconstruction and from ACL reconstruction to rehabilitation. The beneficial outcomes of rehabilitation were significantly inversely associated with the time elapsing from reconstruction to rehabilitation commencement but failed to depend on the time from ACL rupture to reconstruction. We conclude that rehabilitation should start as early as possible after ACL reconstruction to optimize the beneficial outcomes in terms of functional physical recovery, whereas the injury-to-reconstruction delay is less meaningful to this end.

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