Knee injuries are common for professional football players, so to determine the rate of return to play, researchers assessed difference among players who were and were not able to return after arthroscopic chondroplasty at a single institution. Logistic regression was used to determine a player’s odds of return.
Sixty-seven percent of NFL players returned to regular game play at an average of 8.2 months. “No statistical significance was determined when comparing the athletes who returned to play with respect to age at surgery, lesion location, lesion size, lesion grade, position that the athlete played, or draft round,” said the study.
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