Patient-reported outcome and muscle strength after a physiotherapy-led progressive exercise programme and a support brace in patients with an acute injury of the posterior cruciate ligament: a 2-year follow-up study

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Role of Julie Sandell Jacobsen:
Initial principal investigator, including design of study and application of funding. Furthermore, support three clinical physiotherapist, collecting data and providing the intervention (Aarhus University Hospital). Due to change of employment in 2015, a clinical physiotherapist was given the role to run the project and write the draft of a scientific paper. JSJ assisted this physiotherapist in the scientific writing and did the statistical analysis.

The project is supported by: 55.000 kr. from the following funds: The Research Foundation of the Association of Danish Physiotherapists and the Research Foundation at Professional Forum for Physiotherapy in Sports.

Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) injuries can be treated surgically or with progressive exercises in combination with a support brace. Nevertheless, larger prospective studies reporting outcome of exercise-related treatment are lacking. We aimed to investigate changes in patient-reported outcome of a physiotherapy-led progressive exercise programme and a support brace in patients with an acute injury of the PCL over 2-year follow-up. Furthermore, to investigate changes in isometric knee muscle strength over 8-month follow-up, and finally to report conversion to surgical reconstruction over 2-year follow-up .