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Return to Pivoting Sports after Cartilage Repair Surgery of the Knee: A Scoping Review
What it can tell you
The honest spread for pivoting sports after ACI: 33–96% returned to sport, 26–67% to pre-injury level, over roughly 10–16 months — the widest ranges of any procedure.
What it cannot
Your number. The ranges are that wide partly because no standardized return criteria exist anywhere in this literature — the authors' own emphasis.
Everything on this site that leans on E20 — 7 claims
Stage V · Impact“What actually happens: pooled return to sport across cartilage procedures is about 80%, professional athletes 84% — in a dataset that was less than 4% female — and pivoting sports …”Program · Stage V (patellofemoral)“Sport, tier by tier — Pooled return to sport across cartilage procedures runs about 80% — but in pivoting sports the range is 33–96% returned, and most studies never defined "retur…”Program · Stage V (tibiofemoral)“Sport, tier by tier — Pooled return to sport across cartilage procedures runs about 80% — but in pivoting sports the range is 33–96% returned, and most studies never defined "retur…”Exercise Library · Returning to sport“Pooled return to sport after cartilage repair procedures is about eighty per cent, but in pivoting sports the reported range runs from a third to nearly all patients returning, wit…”Benchmarks · return-to-sport pivoting sports“33–96% returned; 26–67% at pre-injury level at ~10–16 months — Scoping review, pivoting-sport athletes after ACI”What we don't know · № 04“No study in this literature used a criterion-based battery to decide when a patient progressed.”What we don't know · № 05“Return-to-sport figures pool a 33–96% range, and most of the studies never defined "return".”
Read it like a sceptic
A scoping review maps the literature; it does not pool or weight it. The ranges are a survey of chaos, not an estimate with a confidence interval.
Population
Pivoting-sport athletes, cartilage repair
Selection policy
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