Prospective randomized clinical trial for the kinematic, kinetic and dynamic surface electromyography evaluation of the artoscopic repair treatment of complete anterior cruciate ligament tears by sampling the semitendinosus and gracilis tendons or by sampling the patellar tendon
Project objectives
The study in question aims to verify the null hypothesis that reconstruction of the ACL with semitendinosus and gracilis or with patellar tendon leads to non-statistically significant differences in terms of functional scores such as IKDC and Lysholm.
The secondary objective of the study is to compare the values of Knee Abduction Motion (KAM), evaluated with a jump from a 40 cm pedestal with a bipodalic stance fall, after arthroscopic ACL reconstruction surgery in two groups of patients different in type of graft used (in one group the semitendinosus and gracilis, in the other the patellar tendon), thus evaluating the effect of the surgical technique on restoring knee stability. In fact, it is assumed that an increase in postoperative KAM corresponds to a decrease in knee stability with an increase in the probability of rerupture.
Start and end date
23/04/2014 - In progress
Project managers
- Prof. Vincenzo Denaro
- Prof. Rocco Papalia
- prof Silvia Sterzi
Coordinating institution of the project
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Funding source
No profit