453: Quad Strength and Movement Patterns After Passing ACLR Testing

Well, uh, we have an article today, fortunately.

It's, uh, it's not by Smash Mouth.

Um, but it is by-

By who?

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the group at University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Uh-

I have actually-

This is Quadricep Strength and Movement Patterns in Patients After ACLR Who Pass a Clinic-Based Return to Sport Testing Battery.

Lead author David Warner and several other authors.

Um, the, the background on this one, this is just a, this is just a nice little clinic slash lab ACL study.

So we got-

Mm-hmm

... you know, we got these individuals after ACL reconstruction.

Commonly in clinical practice, at least in the US, there's, um, there's still a, a barrier that people, that clinicians list to doing advanced testing is, um, resources.

So cost and the availability of, of, uh, isokinetics force plate testing.

So the, this a- a group aimed to basically take an, a cohort of, uh, patients after ACLR, do a clinic-based battery, which involved, uh, an inline dynamometer and some, um, horizontal jump testing.

Uh, so kind of a low-tech clinic-based assessment.

And then as soon as those individuals pass that, they would go get some laboratory testing, which would involve, uh, isometric and isokinetic testing and, uh, some drop jump testing on force plates.

Uh, and this ...

And there's also, um, motion capture involved with the force plate testing so that they could, uh, they could calculate the amount of torque involved at the knee during these movements as well.

Yeah.

Meg, have you heard of that before?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Meg, are you familiar with, um, with, you know, with collecting torque at the knee? You know, using-