Introduction: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture disrupts knee stability and increases the risk of subsequent meniscal injury and degenerative joint disease. (ACL) reconstruction is one of the most common orthopedic surgeries. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of pre-operative and post-operative physiotherapy of ACL reconstruction with hamstring autograft on the success rate of surgery based on the eight parameters of Lysholm knee scoring scale (LKS) one year after the operation.
Method: In this descriptive-analytical study 140 patients underwent ACL reconstruction surgery with hamstring autograft after cruciate ligament rupture in Imam Khomeini Hospital of Ahvaz between 2020 and 2024. The relationship between the number of pre-operative and post-operative physiotherapy sessions and the starting time of post-operative physiotherapy with (LKS) one year after the operation was analyzed using SPSS version 22 software.
Results: In this study 112 men and 28 women were examined. There was no significant relationship between the (LKS) score and the number of pre-operative and post-operative physiotherapy sessions, but the (LKS) score was higher in patients who had 1 to 10 pre-operative physiotherapy sessions and in patients who had less than 10 post-operative physiotherapy sessions. Also the patients who started their physiotherapy in the first week after the operation had much better results.
Conclusion: Although the number of physiotherapy sessions before and after the operation of ACL reconstruction with hamstring autograft does not have a clear effect on the results of the operation but the patients who did physiotherapy before the operation compared to the patients who had no experience of physiotherapy before the operation and also patients who started their physiotherapy sooner after the operation had better results.