{"id":80717,"date":"2017-07-22T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/different-approaches-offer-patients-improved-quality-of-life-after-acl-reconstruction\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:45:16","slug":"different-approaches-offer-patients-improved-quality-of-life-after-acl-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/different-approaches-offer-patients-improved-quality-of-life-after-acl-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Approaches Offer Patients Improved Quality of Life After ACL Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Medicine, Health Care<\/a>  Different Approaches Offer Patients Improved\u2026<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">Published: July 21, 2017.<br \/>Released by American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA &#8211; The most common surgical techniques used to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) offer patients improved quality of life five years after injury, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine&#8217;s Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The study followed patients for five years following surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Orthopaedic surgeons have a variety of surgical techniques available to reconstruct a torn ACL,&#8221; commented corresponding author and presenter Nicholas Mohtadi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, from the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre. &#8220;Our research showed patients overwhelmingly see improvements with the patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, and double-bundle surgical techniques, though re-injuries are more common in the hamstring tendon and double-bundle approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers studied 315 randomized patients, who all completed the five year-follow-up. Patients were randomly assigned one of the surgical approaches defined. Follow-up occurred at three and six months, and then one-, two- and five- years post-operation by an independent trained examiner, who was also blinded to the approach used. Primary outcomes evaluated included patient-reported Anterior Cruciate Ligament Quality of Life (ACL-QOL), a 32-item questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research is exciting as it represents the only double-blind, randomized clinical trial with this large of a sample size, and a mid-term follow-up rate of five years,&#8221; noted Mohtadi. &#8220;We hope this data can continue to help physicians manage patient care and treatment of ACL injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>Chinese<\/a>\u00a0French<\/a>\u00a0German<\/a>\u00a0Italian<\/a>\u00a0Japanese<\/a>\u00a0Korean<\/a>\u00a0Portuguese<\/a>\u00a0Russian<\/a>\u00a0Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine, Health Care Different Approaches Offer Patients Improved\u2026 Published: July 21, 2017.Released by American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine\u00a0\u00a0 TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA &#8211; The most common surgical techniques used to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) offer patients improved quality of life five years after injury, according to research presented today at the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}