Delphi method

This article published in Sports Medicine in July of 2026, pretty recently.

This is Criteria for Return to Running After Surgical Repair of Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture, a Modified Delphi Consensus Study.

Lead author, Maxim Gaspar, and five other authors.

And the background on this one is that...

Shocking.

I know.

And I actually, as I was reading this, I was like, is there one of these Delphi studies for Return to Run after ACL? And there actually is not, which is surprising.

Yeah, there are invited reviews and scoping reviews and practice surveys, but not actually like this same style of study, which is surprising because you think like everything that ACL does is what you do moving forward for everything else.

It takes a lot of work to be rational, and it takes a lot of work to change the disposition to be trustful of reason and willing to revise your beliefs.

That's from a 1990, 1991 American Philosophical Association little paper called, called The Delphi Technique.

It's a great, great little thing.

I used to teach it in class.