Advance in Knee Functional Scales for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a common sport injury, and knee functional scales play an important role in its evaluation and treatment. At present, there are varied scales focusing on this disease, in which only a few have been widely validated. This article introduced the clinical applied range, advantages and disadvantages, and advance of these scales including International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Evaluation Form, Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, Cincinnati Knee Rating Scale, Lysholm Knee Scale, Tegner Activity Level Scale, Marx Activity Level Scale, Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form, Knee Self Efficacy Scale, ACL Quality of Life Scale and Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Return to Sport After Injury Scale. Additionally, the application principles were pointed out.