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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, Vol 71-B, Issue 5, 843-847
Copyright © 1989 by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery

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Is the KT1000 knee ligament arthrometer reliable?

IW Forster, CD Warren-Smith, and M Tew

Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, England.

We set up a trial to test whether the KT1000 arthrometer would give consistent measurements of anteroposterior laxity when used by the same and different examiners on the knees of the same subjects on the same day. The results showed substantial inter- and intra-examiner variation in the measurements both of absolute displacement in single knees and of side-to-side differences between pairs of knees. This casts doubt on the reliability of the instrument when used to compare the results of different techniques for reconstructing injured cruciate ligaments.


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