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. 2009 Oct 10;1(2):e12. doi: 10.4081/or.2009.e12

Table 4. Isokinetic concentric knee flexor peak torque percentage strength deficit (involved/non-involved limb) and effect size for graft type comparison.

Angular velocity
Author 60° s−1 180° s−1 240° s−1 300° s−1
Adachi et al. (2003)4 2ST-2G 95.9% 109.1%
4ST 98.3% 101.9%
Effect size (d) 0.20 0.31
Carter & Edinger (1999)16 2ST-2G 81.7% 75.6%
4ST 80.6% 79.1%
Effect size (d) 0.05 0.15
Lipscomb et al. (1982)13 2ST-2G 97.5% 101.3%
4ST 103.5% 100.5%
Nakamura et al. (2002)9 2ST-2G 91.3% 86.1%
4ST 93.7% 89.4%
Effect size (d) 0.17 0.21
Segawa et al. (2002)7 2ST-2G 93.6%
4ST 93.9%
Effect size (d) 0.26
Tashiro et al. (2003)12 2ST-2G 90% 90%
4ST 93% 95%

Gobbi et al. did not report isokinetic knee flexor strength data therefore results are not included in Table 4. Data from the Adachi et al. (2003) study4 are results from the 24 month follow-up. Effect sizes are presented for papers reporting standard deviations.