Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Halloween.
I have finished my data collection (yay)! My project was looking at maximum flexion seen in the three different surgical grafts for ACL reconstruction. Like literature shows, a majority of the participants suffered their injuries playing either soccer, basketball, or lacrosse. Fifty percent of the participants looked at had patellar tendon grafts, which has been the "gold standard" for a majority of our lifetimes. I also had three participants with quad tendon grafts and only one with a hamstring graft. Because I only had one participant with a hamstring graft, I did not include this data into my statistical analysis. When running my stats I did a t-test and a Welch's test to make up for the variation in number of participants. This also indicated what participants were considered outliers. I think if I were to do this project again, I think I would limit the participants to high level athletes. Some of the variation in flexion angles was due to improper form and landing, which could have led to the outlying data points. I think this would have improved the data significance along with coinciding more with literature, because most of the studies done have been with high skilled athletes. Overall, my data did not indicate significant differences in knee flexion between participants with patellar tendon versus quad grafts (p = 0.052). This result could have been influenced by the small sample size and the varying athletic levels among study participants. Over the next couple weeks I will be working on writing up my results and discussion sections for my senior comp paper. Comments are closed.
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