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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Single-leg hop test kinetics

From: Evaluation of lower limb kinetics during gait, sprint and hop tests before and after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

 

Preoperative

3 months

6 months

12 months

X

SD

X

SD

X

SD

X

SD

MVF

 IKF

228.4

66.9

238.8

42.7

230.6

42.4

233.6

26.85

 CF

245.7

45.1

260.6

46.6

229.6

42.8

237.8

58.56

 p

0.035

0.001

0.001

0.015

 LSI

92.9%

91.6%

100%

98.2%

Hop time

 IKF

0.18

0.11

0.17

0.04

0.14

0.09

0.22

0.21

 CF

0.18

0.09

0.17

0.07

0.11

0.06

0.23

0.24

 p

0.324

0.823

0.051

0.823

 LSI

100%

100%

127%

95%

CT

 IKF

0.44

0.19

0.38

0.1

0.38

0.1

0.37

0.11

 CF

0.38

0.14

0.39

0.14

0.37

0.13

0.38

0.09

 p

0.005

0.081

0.143

0.071

 

 LSI

115%

97.4%

102.7%

97.3%

CT/hop time

 IKF

0.56

0.9

0.5

0.3

0.42

0.4

0.61

0.5

 CF

0.54

0.4

0.45

0.2

0.33

0.18

0.63

0.4

 p

0.044

0.051

0.026

0.007

 LSI

103%

111%

127%

96.8%

  1. MVF maximum vertical force, IKF injured-knee foot, CF control foot, CT contact time, SD standard deviation