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EDITORIAL
Osteoarthritis
Anterior cruciate ligament rupture: is osteoarthritis inevitable?
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Associate Professor Feller
Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
Anterior cruciate ligament rupture, whether treated surgically or not, is associated with an increase in osteoarthritis in former soccer players
Keywords: anterior cruciate ligament; knee; rupture; osteoarthritis; soccer
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Alarming is the word Von Parat, Roos, and Roos choose to describe their findings of significant knee osteoarthritis in middle aged former soccer players who had sustained a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament more than a decade previously.1 Not only was there a high incidence of osteoarthritis in these former players, but reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament did not appear to provide protection from degenerative change in the knee.
In a 14 year follow up of subjects who had formed the basis of an earlier study,2 the authors identified 238 male soccer players who were diagnosed with anterior cruciate ligament injuries in 1986. They were able to contact 205 of the players. Of these, 154 answered questionnaires and a further subgroup of 122 consented to have knee radiographs.
In just over half of the 95 subjects with radiographic changes, there was osteoarthritis equivalent to Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2
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