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. 2023 Jul 18;11(7):23259671231172454. doi: 10.1177/23259671231172454

Table 3.

Reasons With >70% Consensus to Schedule Additional Outpatient Consultations With the Orthopaedic Surgeon During the Rehabilitation Process a

Topic and Reason Domain
Concerns for serious medical complications
 Issues with wound healing or potential infection Post
 Suspicion of deep vein thrombosis Post
Concerns for motion complications
 Persistent passive knee extension deficit beyond 6 weeks (indicative of arthrofibrosis) Post
 Worsening passive knee extension deficit with anterior knee pain if forced (indicative of cyclops lesion) Post
Concerns for reinjury
 New trauma, recurrence of giving way, and/or positive Lachman or pivot-shift test (indicative of graft failure) Post
 Knee locking (indicative of meniscal or chondral defects) Non, Pre, Post
Concerns for failure to progress
 Persistent effusion, despite appropriate rehabilitation Non, Pre, Post
 Prolonged (postoperative) pain interfering with rehabilitation Non, Post

a Non, nonsurgical rehabilitation; Post, postoperative rehabilitation; Pre, prehabilitation.