Table 2

Outcome comparison of surgical versus nonsurgical treatment [2, 10, 31, 3438].

Study Design Number of patients
Lysholm Score
IKDC Score (% Good/excellent)
Tegner activity score
Range of motion (°)
Loss of flexion (°)
Return to work (%)
Return to sport (%)
S NS S NS S NS S NS S NS S NS S NS S NS
Dedmond and Almekinders [10] Meta-analysis 132 74 85.2 66.5 123 108 0.54 3.5 58 50 31 14
Levy et al. [2] Systematic Review 227 107 58 20 126 123 4 3 72 52 29 10
Peskun and Whelan [31] Systematic Review 855 61 84.3 67.2 61.3 25.0 4.8 2.7 80.9 50 57.8 22.2
Almekinders and Logan [35] Retrospective Study 6 10 129 108
Richter et al. [34] Retrospective cohort 59 18 78 65 24 6 4 3 85 53 56 17
Wong et al. [38] Retrospective cohort 15 11 75.84 63.71 129 137 6 2 0 0
Ríos et al. [37] Retrospective cohort 21 5 77 40 76 0
Demirağ et al. [36] Retrospective cohort 6 6 84.6 74 116 72

Abbreviations: S, Surgical; NS, Non-surgical.

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