Features of the recovery of military servants and civilian population after reconstruction of the anterior crucilateral ligament of the knee joint

Kostogryz Yu.O.

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Features of the recovery of military servants and civilian population after reconstruction of the anterior crucilateral ligament of the knee joint

December 17, 2025

Surgery

Orthopedics and Traumatology

Kostogryz Yu.O.

УДК: 616.72.728.3:355.422:355.08(048.9)

DOI: 10.32471/umj.1680-3051.263305

Keywords :

anterior cruciate ligament,

complications,

knee joint,

military personnel,

post-traumatic gonarthrosis

Specialities :

Surgery

Orthopedics and Traumatology

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Anterior cruciate ligament injury, both in military personnel and civilians, is one of the most common knee injuries. It has been statistically proven that military personnel are 10 times more likely to sustain an anterior cruciate ligament injury than civilians. Despite scientific and technical progress in the world in general and in medicine in particular, various complications can and do occur after successful reconstructions of the anterior cruciate ligament. Thus, 4–35% of military patients develop arthrofibrosis, and more than 50% cannot return to their duties, and about 50% of patients develop post-traumatic osteoarthritis within the next 10–15 years after surgery. No less worrying is the fact that women are 2–8 times more likely to sustain an anterior cruciate ligament injury than men.

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