How Much Time Is Needed Between Serial "Return to Play" Assessments to Achieve Clinically Important Strength Gains in Patients Recovering From Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction?

Background: Pass rates for return-to-play evaluations are alarmingly low for patients after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Since timing of return to play is a complicated decision, it is important that patients be given optimal time to realize meaningful improvements in strength that warrant additional testing.

Purpose: To (1) compare outcomes among patients assessed at different time points after ACLR, (2) determine strength gains indicative of improvements in subjective function, and (3) determine the amount of time necessary to achieve meaningful strength gains.

Demographic and surgical factors affect quadriceps strength after ACL reconstruction.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of graft source, time since surgery, age, and sex on unilateral and symmetry-based measures of knee extension strength among individuals with ACL reconstruction (ACLR).

Methods: Three hundred and eight individuals aged 13-40 years old with primary, unilateral ACLR in the last 60 months were enrolled in this multi-site clinical measurement study. Participants completed bilateral knee extension maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) torque assessments which were normalized to body mass (Nm/kg) and limb symmetry indices (LSI) were calculated.

Black Americans' Perspectives of Barriers and Facilitators of Community Screening for Kidney Disease.

Background And Objectives: Incidence of ESKD is three times higher in black Americans than in whites, and CKD prevalence continues to rise among black Americans. Community-based kidney disease screening may increase early identification and awareness of black Americans at risk, but it is challenging to implement. This study aimed to identify participants' perspectives of community kidney disease screening.