Risk Factor of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture After Ligamentoplasty : What is the Importance of a Relative Deficit of Contralateral Hamstrings Assessed by Isokinetic in Postoperative ?

Completed

• Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture
• Interventions: Procedure: Isokinetic evaluation

• Registration Number: NCT03668210
• Lead Sponsor: Rennes University Hospital

Brief Summary

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a common pathology (37 000 operations in 2006, nearly 43 000 in 2012 in France) justifying more and more operating indications in younger and younger patients. 70-80% of ACL ruptures occur without contact, which makes it a major public health interest because of its frequency and accessibility in terms of prevention.

The place of isokinetic assessment is important pre and postoperatively so that it has become systematic.

Detailed Description

The main risk factors for known ACL lesions are female gender, pivotal sports, neuromuscular deficits, proprioceptive, hormonal, morphological deficits ... Moreover, there is also an increase in the number of contralateral fractures in patients who had a ligamentoplasty. There are many articles on the ACL pathology but unequal on the potential risk factors. The only proven risk factor for contralateral rupture is the age of the first episode; the female sex also seems to be important in some studies but remains more controversial. However, many factors have been studied: the intensity of the sport, the sex, the operative technique of ligamentoplasty, the operating duration, the duration of recovery of the sports activity, the level of recovery (of this sporting activity ) ...

Isokinetics is used to measure the peak of strength of quadriceps and hamstrings, in concentric or eccentric, at slow and fast speed and to determine a hamstring / quadriceps ratio to highlight a deficit or imbalance.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-07-31
• Primary Completion: 2018-08-31
• Study Completion: 2018-08-31
• Status Verified: 2018-09
• Study First Submitted: 2018-09-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-09-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-09-10
• Study First Posted: 2018-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 2018-09-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 141

Inclusion Criteria

• Athletic patients all levels
• victims of ACL rupture during sports practice,
• operated by the same surgeon
• having been evaluated in isokinetic postoperative in the Sports Medicine Department of Rennes University Hospital
• having resumed a sporting activity
• with the first ACL rupture between 01/01/1994 and 12/31/2015

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with ACL rupture outside of a sporting context
• not having resumed post-operative sports activity on the maximum follow-up period of 15 years
• not evaluated for isokinetic activity in the sports medicine department
• minors at the time of inclusion

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients with contralateral ACL after Ligamentoplasty	Isokinetic evaluation	Athletic patients who have consulted in Sports Medicine Department at the Rennes University Hospital, victims of an ACL rupture during sports activity and who declared a contralateral ACL after the ligamentoplasty. Isokinetic evaluation.
Patients without contralateral ACL rupture	Isokinetic evaluation	Athletic patients who have consulted in Sports Medicine Department at Rennes University Hospital, without ACL rupture. Isokinetic evaluation.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evaluation of relative hamstrings deficiency versus quadriceps expressed by a concentric hamstrings/quadriceps ratio	At inclusion	Isokineticism makes it possible to measure the peak of force of quadriceps and hamstrings. Concentric hamstrings/quadriceps ratio in isokinetic is calculated to detect a relative deficiency if it is below threshold values of 55% at 60 °/s slow speed, or 65% at 180 °/s fast speed.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Investigating whether a lack of recruitment of hamstring at fast speed is a potential risk factor for ACL rupture, by evaluating hamstrings/quadriceps ratio in isokinetics.	At inclusion	The lack of recruitment of the hamstrings when increasing speed is defined as normal ratios of peaks of force at the two speeds in isokinetic, but with an increase of the ratio hamstrings/Quadriceps in concentric at fast speed lower than 10%, with reference to the value of the ratio hamstrings/Quadriceps at slow speed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rennes University Hospital; 🇫🇷 Rennes, France