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Late-stage rehabilitation effects do not differ between quadriceps and hamstring tendon autograft after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a multicentre propensity score-matched case-control intervention trial

Daniel Niederer
1, 2
,
Matthias Keller
3
,
Wolf Petersen
4
,
Natalie Mengis
5, 6
,
Christian Eberle
5
,
Daniel Guenther
7
,
Georg Brandl
8
,
Björn H. Drews
9
,
Tobias Engeroff
1
,
Lutz Vogt
10
,
David A. Groneberg
1
,
Thomas Stein
10, 11

  1. Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt
  2. Department of Movement and Training Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Sport Science, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
  3. OSINSTITUT ortho & sport, Munich, Germany
  4. Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Berlin, Germany
  5. Arcus Sportklinik, Pforzheim, Germany
  6. KSA Aarau/Spital Zofingen, Switzerland; University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
  7. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Trauma Surgery, and Sports Medicine, Cologne Merheim Medical Center, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
  8. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery II, Herz-Jesu Krankenhaus, Vienna, Austria
  9. St. Vinzenz Clinic Allgäu, Pfronten, Germany
  10. Department of Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology; Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  11. SPORTHOLOGICUM Frankfurt – Center for Sport and Joint injuries, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Biol Sport. 2025;42(2):135–149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2025.142647
Online publish date: 2024/10/15
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