Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 3 Comparison of Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale, Tegner Activity Scale (TAS), and visual analog scale (VAS) over time reported as average (for Lysholm and VAS) and median (for Tegner), with range in parentheses
From: Role of nonoperative treatment in managing degenerative tears of the medial meniscus posterior root
Time | Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale | Tegner activity scale | VAS (rest) | VAS (activity) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Preintervention | 56 (32–73) SD ± 8 | 2 (0–3) | 2 (0–3) | 5 (2–7) |
3 months | 81 (70–94) SD ± 7 | 3 (2–4) | 0 (0–1) | 2 (0–2) |
6 months | 84 (70–95) SD ± 6 | 4 (4–5) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) |
12 months | 85 (64–93) SD ± 5 | 4 (3–5) | 0 (0–3) | 1 (0–3) |
Final follow-up | 79 (40–91) SD ± 7 | 4 (1–5) | 0 (0–4) | 1 (0–7) |
P value between preintervention and final follow-up | 0.0212 | 0.033 | 0.0284 | 0.0397 |