The Effect of Contralateral Limb Training on Functional Outcomes in Patients With ACL Reconstruction

Contralateral Strength Training Effects on Functional Outcomes in Patients Who Had Undergone ACL Reconstruction: Randomized Controlled Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03304561

Enrollment

Registered

2017-10-09

Start date

2016-10-01

Completion date

2017-10-30

Last updated

2018-02-05

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Conditions

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Keywords

knee, rehabilitation, ACL, Contralateral training

Brief summary

Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction and one of the main focus of rehabilitation is to improve strenght of these muscles. With the strenghtening of the contralateral limb (cross-over training) we aimed to improve the strenght of the quadriceps

Detailed description

Returning to sport after ACL reconstruction is not at desired level among athletes. Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction. Cross-over training is recomended during rehabilitation after ACL reconstrucion. Yet duration of the training, frequancy and type of exercise interention are not clear for the cross-over training. Ain of the study is to investigate the effects of cross-over training on muscle strenght

Interventions

OTHERTraditional rehabilitation

traditional ACL rehabilitation program

OTHERCross-over training

Cross-over training addition to the traditional rehabilidation

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 45 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* having surgery of ACL reconstruction on one side * having no problem at least six month on the nonsrgical side * recieving the rehabilitation programme at hacettepe university, physiotherapy department

Exclusion criteria

* refusing to include to the study * having revision ACL surgery * addition of PCL or cartilage surgery addition to the ACL surgery * not participating to the rehabilidation program regularly over 3 month after sugery

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenght	6 month	quadriceps strength change during the first, second and sixth months of the rehabilitation proccess after ACL reconstruction surgery. the strength measurements will conducted on isokinetic dynamometer (isomed 2000)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
functional outcomes	6 month	one leg hop test, vertical jump test on the sixth month after surgery. the functional outcomes will be measured only at the sixth month after surgery.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026