Oh, My Quad: A Clinical Commentary And Evidence-Based Framework for the Rehabilitation of Quadriceps Size and Strength after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
Braidy Solie, Mitchell Carlson, Christopher Doney, Michael Kiely, Robert LaPrade
PMID 39628771WHAT IT FOUND
This paper is a clinical commentary and framework, not a trial or systematic review.
It gives exercise progression ideas for quadriceps recovery after ACL reconstruction, but reports no original outcomes.
What this paper is
This is a clinical commentary and evidence-based framework for quadriceps rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. It synthesizes existing literature and offers exercise progression ideas, but it reports no original patient methods or outcomes, so there is no new finding to change practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the recommended exercise progressions as tested interventions. The article is a commentary and framework, not a study that measured outcomes in patients.