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Criteria-Based Return to Play After ACL Reconstruction: The Brazilian Experience

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The risk of injury in professional football is high. Injuries of the knee joint and particularly rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are relatively common in the sport. Surgical ACL reconstruction is currently the standard treatment in athletes. After injury and surgical repair, the first question of athletes is how long it will take to return to the field and to play at the same level as prior to injury. Several factors influence the return to football in athletes undergoing ACL reconstruction. Despite the numerous postoperative evaluations recommended in various studies, new high-quality studies should be undertaken in the coming years to determine specific criteria with high sensitivity and specificity for safe return to sports after ACL reconstruction.

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  1. Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte (CETE)/ Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Gustavo Gonçalves Arliani & Moises Cohen

  2. Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

    Mario Ferretti

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  1. UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Volker Musahl

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jón Karlsson

  3. Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Werner Krutsch

  4. Santa Monica, California, USA

    Bert R. Mandelbaum

  5. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre, Porto, Portugal

    João Espregueira-Mendes

  6. Orthopaedic Surgery, Aspetar Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Pieter d'Hooghe

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Arliani, G.G., Ferretti, M., Cohen, M. (2018). Criteria-Based Return to Play After ACL Reconstruction: The Brazilian Experience. In: Musahl, V., Karlsson, J., Krutsch, W., Mandelbaum, B., Espregueira-Mendes, J., d'Hooghe, P. (eds) Return to Play in Football. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55713-6_12

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