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Evidence / Sources / E133

Ebert JR, Fallon M, Smith A, Janes GC, Wood DJ. Prospective clinical and radiologic evaluation of patellofemoral matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation. AJSM 2015;43(6):1362-72. Carries a week-by-week patellofemoral rehabilitation protocol (its Table 2) — the first located anywhere in this corpus. 19 of 47 had concurrent tibial tubercle transfer

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Case series (level 4) + published protocol · n = 47 pts · 24 mo follow-upMACI ITSELFDOI / full text →
Everything on this site that leans on E133 — 10 claims
Program · Stage II (patellofemoral)“Walking in the brace, locked in extension — The near-opposite of the tibiofemoral rule on which variable is rationed. If your surgeon restricted your weight-bearing, theirs wins — …”Exercise Library · Straight-leg raise, no lag · Evidence for this movement“That it belongs here — two accounts, one clinic”Week ruler · week 7 (patellofemoral)“The Perth series takes active range to a hundred and twenty-five degrees at week six and to full range at week seven. This is one centre's schedule rather than a general finding, a…”Week ruler · week 3 (patellofemoral)“The Perth protocol holds the leg under a fifth of body weight for a fortnight and moves to about a third in the third week. Read it as the shape of a ladder rather than as your num…”Week ruler · week 4 (patellofemoral)“Week four is the one point where the two independent patellofemoral protocols agree: Perth moves to about two-fifths of body weight, and the Italian series opens progressive weight…”Week ruler · week 5 (patellofemoral)“By the fifth week the Perth protocol has the leg carrying most of you, still with the knee braced straight for anything loaded. The bend, not the load, is what stays rationed on th…”Week ruler · week 6 (patellofemoral)“The Perth protocol reaches full weight somewhere across weeks six to twelve rather than on a stated day, and the ≥10-year series from the same group puts it at six weeks. Other sou…”Hard limits · stage 1 (patellofemoral)“Weight through this leg is authorised, never assumed”Hard limits · stage 2 (patellofemoral)“Full weight is a clearance, not a date”Why this · Why depth is the thing being rationed here, and weight is not“The canonical protocol places functional squats and lunges in its return-to-work phase, later than the window this page covers, and the patellofemoral protocol located since puts i…”
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MACI, patellofemoral (patella or trochlea, ± TTT)
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