My group's clinical question was "In ACL tear post surgery patients, what is the effect of return to play with a brace compared to play without a brace as it pertains to range of motion, patient confidence, and also patient comfort?". Our group members consist of Catherine, Lani, and myself. Our committee members include Chaypin Buchanan and Lani's dad, Dr. Rhinehart. When we sat down to come up with a question, it was actually Catherine who came up with the idea to do our question pertaining to athletes having ACL tears and how wearing a brace after surgery can/will effect their ability to play. So the main reason we decided on choosing this topic was because Catherine and I both play with several people on the soccer team that have come back from ACL tears and one of them still wears their brace and the other two do not. So this really peaked our interest in the subject and Lani also went on to say that she had previously played soccer with an athlete dealing with the same circumstances. On our team, the first individual seems to rely heavily on the brace but I remember that there has been multiple times that she had been complaining at different periods throughout the season that it just kept hurting her and that it didn't fit correctly, therefore she decided that she try practicing without it a couple times but she put it back on soon after ( I think she may have tried it for one practice. I'm not even sure if it was for the full time). However, the second individual has been playing without her brace for about about two months or so and hasn't seen any problems without her brace really. She has also went on the make the comment that "My brace slows me down." so that has also peaked our interest as well to see if that has ever been proven true or not. While discussing our clinical question, one of the things that we are most interested in is if once a player returns and they begin to wear their brace for while if that after so long if it really doesn't support the knee as well as the player thinks it is. Yes, the brace more than likely helps in the beginning but after a certain period of time, we were wondering if the knee has healed enough that it can support itself but the player just relies on it too much at this point. So far we are excited to see where our question leads us and what information we will find pertaining to it.
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