Evidence / Sources / E37
Zarzycki R et al. Female Athletes With Better Psychological Readiness Are at Higher Risk for Second ACL Injury. Sports Health 2024
What it can tell you
The counterintuitive warning this site's readiness row exists for: female ACL athletes with higher psychological readiness met return criteria sooner — and had more second injuries. Confidence is not a gate.
What it cannot
Whether the same trap operates after cartilage repair; nobody has looked. n=39, one population, secondary analysis.
Everything on this site that leans on E37 — 5 claims
Program · Stage V (patellofemoral)“Psychological readiness — checked, not trusted — From ACL cohorts: the athletes who felt most ready, soonest, had more second injuries. Different surgery — but the trap transfers u…”Program · Stage V (tibiofemoral)“Psychological readiness — checked, not trusted — From ACL cohorts: the athletes who felt most ready, soonest, had more second injuries. Different surgery — but the trap transfers u…”Exercise Library · Readiness check“The psychological-readiness and fear-of-movement literature after knee surgery comes from anterior cruciate ligament injury and reconstruction populations, where athletes reporting…”Why this · Why feeling ready is checked rather than trusted“Among ACL-reconstruction athletes, those who went on to sustain a second injury had higher psychological readiness scores and met return-to-sport criteria sooner than those who did…”Why this · Why feeling ready is checked rather than trusted“Among ACL-reconstruction athletes, those who went on to sustain a second injury had higher psychological readiness scores and met return-to-sport criteria sooner than those who did…”
Read it like a sceptic
Secondary analysis of a trial designed for something else; the finding needs replication before it is more than a caution.
Population
Female ACL athletes — a different population from MACI itself. Wherever this source appears, that flag appears with it.
Selection policy
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