When do School-aged Patients Return to School After ACL Surgery?

All patients undergoing ACL surgery who are enrolled in middle or high school will be recruited for study participation. Patients undergoing concomitant additional ligament surgery will be excluded. The only procedure will be to answer a short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them. This will occur at the patient's 2 week post-operative clinic visit. This clinic visit is a standard of care visit. Independent variables will be collected from the medical record and are all standard of care information routinely collected from this patient populations (age, sex, race, date of surgery, surgeon, sport played, grade, ACL surgery graft type, associated meniscal or chondral surgery, length of post-operative narcotic use, regional nerve block at the time of surgery, SANE score, IKDC score, brace used).

Inclusion criteria

• ACL reconstruction surgery
• currently enrolled in middle or high school (grades 6-12)
• Surgery occurs during the school year
• No concomitant additional ligament surgery (ie. PCL, MCL, LCL or MPFL)

Exclusion criteria

• patient is home schooled or in non-traditional school setting (ie. school for special needs)
• concomitant additional ligament surgery
• surgery occurs outside of the school year or on a scheduled break from school