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June 19, 2026Orthopaedic Journal of Sports MedicineOpen Access

Patterns in Patient-Reported Outcome Scores Between Pediatric And Adolescent Athletes Participating in Individual vs Team Sports Undergoing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

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CKCaroline KimMSMorgan SwansonDTDivya Talwar

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Overview

Retrospective review compares mental and physical health outcomes in youth athletes post-ACLR, suggesting individual athletes need more support.

Key Points

  • This study aims to compare mental and physical health outcomes in pediatric and adolescent athletes participating in individual versus team sports after ACL reconstruction.
  • Retrospective review of pediatric athletes undergoing ACLR from 1/2019-7/2024
  • Collected PROMIS Anxiety, Depression, Physical Function Mobility, Fatigue, Peer Relationships, and Pain Interference scores pre-op and at multiple post-op points
  • Conducted bivariate analyses of scores between individual and team sport groups at each timepoint.
  • At 4-6 weeks post-op, individual sport athletes had 24% moderate to severe Anxiety compared to 12% in team sport athletes (p=0.015).
  • Fatigue was 34% in individual sport athletes versus 21% in team sport athletes (p=0.026).
  • At 3 months, 44% of individual sport athletes had impaired Physical Function Mobility compared to 25% in team sport athletes (p=0.025).

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Kim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a34dd1d65a5b0777af2cff4https://doi.org/10.1177/2325967126s00145
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