@LenMacPT From personal experience, I didn’t use a brace with either of my ACLRs. I always have patients wear their brace as instructed by physician. My patients always come with a brace post op here in Kentucky.
.Let's create a crazy addictive #drug.
Tell everyone it's not that bad. We know it is.
Pay MDs to prescribe it.
Pay lobbyists to make sure #pain control is part of #hospital reimbursement.
Make new drug to solve the shit show we created. #bigpahrma
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WORDS MATTER:
Biggest predictor for choosing surgery: Low patient expectation of the benefit of physiotherapy. Choosing words carefully is essential, especially as the outcomes for atraumatic full & partial thickness tears = those of surgery
Structural factors were not related!