The Effect of Longer versus Shorter Duration of Supervised Physiotherapy after ACL Reconstruction on the Vertical Jump Landing Limb Symmetry

Table 1

Characteristics of study groups.

	Group I; ()		Group II; ()		Group III; ()
		SD		SD		SD
Age (years)	25.85	5.20	27.33	6.26	22.55	1.82
Body mass (kg)	85.60	11.33	79.60	9.52	77.20	9.92	0.07
Body height (cm)	184.80	8.61	179.33	5.90	181.65	7.22	0.11
Time since ACLR (weeks)	27.95	8.26	32.47	7.74	–	–	0.11
Duration of postoperative physiotherapy (weeks)	27.95	8.26	11.29	8.20	–	–	≤0.001
Involved leg: right/left ()	11/9		7/8		–	–	–

, number of individuals; , significance level; SD, standard deviation; , arithmetic mean. post hoc test revealed difference between Groups II and III. Statistically significant values are in boldface.