Table 2.

Clinical Outcomes of the Two Groups

Groupa)	Preoperative	Postoperative			Final follow-up
		3 mo	6 mo	1 yr
Lysholm
Group I	63.3	71.8	82.4	86.4	88.3
Group II	63.4	75.2	84.2	89.2	90.1
p-valueb)	0.417	0.041	0.141	0.914	0.217
VAS
Group I	6.6	6.8	4.2	3.9	3.4
Group II	6.7	7.0	4.3	3.3	3.2
p-valueb)	0.924	0.829	0.610	0.040	0.691
HSS
Group I	66.3	71.1	80.1	83.3	85.2
Group II	66.3	72.5	82.3	86.2	87.3
p-valueb)	0.845	0.448	0.056	0.008	0.267
WOMAC
Group I	19.2	17.0	13.3	11.3	9.8
Group II	17.7	16.9	12.3	9.0	8.6
p-valueb)	0.689	0.575	0.957	0.603	0.631
Tegner
Group I	3.1	3.4	4.4	4.7	5.1
Group II	3.5	3.6	4.3	4.9	5.3
p-valueb)	0.237	0.732	0.834	0.665	0.472

Values are presented as mean.

Lysholm: Lysholm knee scoring scale, VAS: visual analogue scale score, HSS: Hospital for Special Surgery score, WOMAC: Western Ontario and McMaster Universities score, Tegner: Tegner activity score.

^a)Group I is kissing group and group II is non-kissing group.

^b)Mann-Whitney U-test.