Screening for psychological factors early after ACL injury may help identify athletes at risk of not returning to preinjury sport levels.
Returning or not returning to the preinjury level after ACL reconstruction is complex and multifactorial. Screening for potentially modifiable contextual factors, particularly psychological factors, early after ACL injury may help clinicians identify athletes who could be at risk of not returning to the preinjury level of sport and institute interventions that could improve returning to sport.
Clare L. Ardern (Tue,) studied this question.