Is Knee Osteoarthritis an Inevitable Consequence for Athletes after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury?
Alexandre Rambaud, Grégory Morel, Robert Prill, Nicky van Melick, Florian Forelli
PMID 42245758WHAT IT FOUND
A position paper calling for sports physiotherapists to extend their role beyond return to sport into long-term knee health management after ACL injury.
It reports no data of its own.
What this paper is
This is a position paper from sports physiotherapists arguing that ACL injury management should extend beyond return to sport into long-term knee health. It makes the case that post-traumatic osteoarthritis is a common long-term consequence, citing that near 40% of ACL-injured patients develop radiographic knee OA within 10 to 15 years, and calls for physiotherapists to take on a broader role in load management, early symptom recognition, and multidisciplinary follow-up. It reports no patients, no intervention, and no outcomes of its own, so there is no finding here to change your practice on.