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Randomized study of ACL reconstruction: Stability bracing is unnecessary

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Whether bracing after ACL reconstruction supports better outcomes is an ongoing question and one that Hermann O. Mayr, MD, PhD, of Freiburg, Germany, and colleagues studied after ACL reconstruction with patellar tendon autograft in patients with 4-year follow-up evaluations.

An article in the latest issue of Orthopaedics Today Europe notes there were no differences in International Knee Documentation Committee scores and other tests among patients who wore a brace for 6 weeks postoperatively and patients who did not wear one.

In his perspective on the findings, Julian A. Feller, FRACS, of Melbourne, Australia, said Mayr’s results call into question the need for routine bracing in patients with patellar tendon autograft and noted it may not be possible to extrapolate them to patients with other types of ACL autograft tissue.