Table 1 Patient characteristics of 52 patients
From: Rater agreement reliability of the dial test in the ACL-deficient knee
gender (men/women) | 31 (59.6%)/21 (40.4%) |
mean age in years ± SD | 29.9 ± 9.2 |
mean body mass index in kg/m2 ± SD | 24.4 ± 2.9 |
mean time between trauma and physical examination in weeks ± SD | 23.4 ± 31.6 |
  ≤ 6 weeks | 12 (23.1%) |
  > 6 weeks | 39 (75%) |
 no recollection of trauma | 1 (1.9%) |
mean time between first physical examination and second physical examination in weeks ± SD | 5.6 ± 3.8 |
mean time between trauma and MRI in weeks ± SD | 16.4 ± 26.1 |
injured side (left/right) | 20 (38.5%)/32 (61.5%) |
unblinding of researcher | 7 (13.5%) |
inability of relative muscle relaxation | 19 (36.5%) |
physical therapy prior to first physical examination | 37 (71.2%) |
Treatment | |
ACL reconstruction | 29 (55.8%) |
 additional lateral extraarticular tenodesisa | 4 (13.8%) |
 PLC reconstructionb | 6 (20.7%) |
conservative treatment | 18 (34.6%) |
diagnostic trajectory | 5 (9.6%) |