1. Time-Based Return to Play: The MOON Experience
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Mia Smucny and Kurt P. Spindler
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Football players ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Rehabilitation ,Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Cohort ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Time based ,business ,Outcome (game theory) ,Return to play - Abstract
The Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) is a prospective outcome cohort for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with over 3500 patients and 40 publications. This chapter reviews the evidence-based rehabilitation guidelines which are standardized among patients in MOON. It discusses football-specific return-to-play findings from the MOON study. Finally it discusses general outcomes of football players in the MOON group after ACLR.
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- 2018
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