Motor Imagery Training Football Players With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair

Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale: This scale, consisting of 17 questions, evaluates the person's avoidance of movement or fear of re-injury. A Likert-type scale consisting of 4 points is used. 1 point means 'I disagree', and 4 points means 'I agree'. The individual receives a total score between 17 and 68 on this scale. A high score means high kinesiophobia.

Tegner Activity Scale: Although the scale consists of 11 questions in total, the difficulty level increases as you go from 0 to 10. While 0 means that he is either resting or retired due to his knee problem, 10 means that he is at a level where he can play competitive football at the national and elite levels. The individual is asked to mark the most appropriate one among these 11 items according to his activity level.

IKDC (International Knee Documentation Committee): The IKDC is a purely subjective assessment that assigns patients a functional overall rating. Three categories are examined by the questionnaire: symptoms, athletic activity, and knee function. The symptoms subscale aids in evaluating issues like pain, stiffness, edema, and knee giving way. The stair climbing, standing up from a chair, squatting, and jumping functions are the emphasis of the sports activity subscale. Higher scores indicate higher levels of function and lower levels of symptoms, with the transformed score being regarded as a measure of function.

Athletic Injury Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (AISEQ): The questionnaire comprised 10 items representing 3 types of self-efficacy: task (3 items), barrier (3 items), and scheduling (4 items). Participants rate their self-efficacy for each of the items on a confidence scale ranging from 0% (no confidence) to 100% (completely confident).