Incorporating Internal and External Training Load Measurements in Clinical Decision Making After ACL Reconstruction: A Clinical Commentary.
Jeffrey B Taylor, Kevin R Ford, Robin M Queen, Elizabeth C Owen, Angela Spontelli Gisselman
PMID 33842052WHAT IT FOUND
This paper proposes using wearable technology to track training load during ACL rehabilitation.
It does not report any patient outcomes or test whether this approach improves return-to-sport decisions, so it offers no evidence that these measurements change clinical results.
What this paper is
This is a clinical commentary describing how to incorporate internal and external training load measurements into decision making after ACL reconstruction. It reviews concepts and suggests potential applications but reports no patients, no methods, and no outcomes, so there is no finding to act on.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest and state that no funding was received for this study.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the proposed monitoring models as validated protocols. The paper presents theoretical examples and suggests that wearable data can inform practice, but it does not provide evidence that using these measures improves patient outcomes or return-to-sport safety.