Clinical Utility of Ultrasound Imaging for Measuring Anterior Thigh Thickness after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in an Individual Patient to Assess Postsurgery Outcome

Table 2

Examination of differences in anterior thigh tissue thickness between pre-ACLR surgery and postrehabilitation on the injured limb.

Tissue thickness (cm)	Presurgery	Postrehab	Paired mean diff	SD	SEM	Lower	Upper		df	Holm’s adjusted value
SF thickness (cm)			-0.14	0.03	0.01	-0.19	-0.07	-9.18	2	0.04
Muscle thickness (cm)			-0.61	0.13	0.07	-0.93	-0.29	-8.34	2	0.04
Muscle to fat ratio			-0.25	0.13	0.08	-0.58	0.07	-3.33	2	0.08
Thigh girth (cm)			-2.03	0.29	0.17	-2.75	-1.32	-12.2	2	0.03

SD = standard deviation; SEM = standard error of the mean; df = degrees of freedom. Significant 2-tailed; . Presurgery = last 3 measurements prior to ACLR. Postrehab = last 3 measurements at the final period of rehabilitation.