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Table 2 Background information about the participating athletes

From: Athletes’ perspectives on return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and their strategies to reduce reinjury risk: a qualitative interview study

Characteristic

Athletes (n = 15)

Age (years), median (range)

21 (15–35)

Sex, males/females, n (%)

6 (40)/9 (60)

Occupation

10 students, 5 workers

Time since ACLR (months), median (range)

23 (14 − 59)

Time from ACLR to return to full training with the team, median (range)

10 (7–18)

Graft, all autografts

10 hamstring tendon, 3 BPTB, 2 quadriceps tendon

Sport activity

10 football, 3 handball, 2 floorball

Sport level

4 elite, 11 recreational

ACL-RSI total score, median (range)

6.8 (1.0 − 9.8)

IKDC-SKF score, median (range)

86 (36 − 98)

  1. ACLR, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; BPTB, bone-patellar tendon-bone; ACL-RSI, ACL-Return to Sport after Injury scale, each question score range from 1 (worst) to 10 (best) in the Swedish version and the total score is the sum of all 12 questions divided by 12 (range 1–10) [21]; IKDC-SKF, International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Evaluation Form, score range from 0 (worst) to 100 (best)