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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Biomech (Bristol). 2014 Dec 20;30(1):1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2014.12.006

Table 2.

Forces and moments for the Native ACL (n = 11) and ACL-reconstructed (n = 6 each) knees at heelstrike (HS), midstance (MS), and toeoff (TO).

Native ACL, ACL-D, and Grafted Knees - Forces (N (SEM)) and Moments (Nm (SEM))
ACL-D Native ACL Hybrid RTM BPTB

Anterior Force HS −5.9 (1.9) * 44.3 (7.7) 56.0 (7.4) 64.2 (7.3) 62.5 (4.2)
MS −5.0 (0.4) * 34.3 (6.0) 32.0 (6.9) 33.1 (5.1) 36.7 (4.0)
TO −7.7 (1.0) * 34.3 (5.1) 46.5 (7.6) 47.9 (6.7) * 53.3 (2.5) *

Medial Force HS −0.3 (0.8) * 19.5 (1.9) 33.8 (5.7 ) * 44.7 (4.1 ) * 40.5 (4.3) *
MS −2.1 (0.5) * 10.4 (1.7) 15.4 (4.2) 20.7 (2.8) * 22.6 (5.7)
TO −1.8 (0.7) * 13.9 (1.4) 26.2 (5.4) * 33.6 (4.2) * 33.8 (3.3) *

Compression Force HS 33.6 (5.1) * 70.8 (8.2) 115.2 (15.7) * 103.0 (6.7) * 142.7 (6.9) *
MS 0.6 (1.5) 7.4 (5.1) 37.3 (16.0) * 31.0 (8.0) * 29.0 (13.4)
TO 33.3 (3.3) * 75.4 (7.6) 110.8 (15.8) * 100.8 (11.3) * 129.2 (8.5) *

Abduction Moment HS 0.2 (0.4) * 3.5 (0.5) 5.7 (0.7) 7.5 (0.5 ) * 7.6 (0.8) *
MS −0.5 (0.1) * 1.3 (0.5) 2.1 (0.7) 3.3 (0.5) 3.0 (1.5)
TO −0.8 (0.4) * 1.9 (0.4) 3.8 (0.7) 5.2 (0.6) * 5.8 (0.7) *

Flexion Moment HS 0.6 (0.3) * 9.3 (1.3) 10.7 (1.3) 11.6 (1.6) 11.1 (0.5)
MS −0.1 (0.1) * 6.8 (0.8) 6.2 (1.2) 5.9 (1.3) 6.7 (0.7)
TO 0.0 (0.2) * 7.4 (0.9) 8.8 (1.3) 10.1 (1.6) 9.5 (0.4)

Internal Moment HS −0.2 (0.1) −0.2 (0.1) 0.2 (0.5) −0.2 (0.1) −0.3 (0.3)
MS 0.1 (0.0) 0.2 (0.1) 0.6 (0.5) 0.0 (0.0) 0.2 (0.2)
TO 0.0 (0.1) 0.0 (0.1) 0.4 (0.5) −0.1 (0.1) −0.1 (0.2)

Significant differences from the ACL-intact condition are highlighted in bold (p < 0.05), with * indicating a significant difference from the intact ACL and † indicating a significant increase from ACLD. This table was adapted with permission from Boguszewski 2012.[76]