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What is OPTIKNEE?
OPTIKNEE is an international consensus group focused on improving knee health and preventing osteoarthritis after a traumatic knee injury.
OPTIKNEE consists of clinician-scientists (physiotherapists, sports and exercise medicine physicians, orthopedic surgeons, kinesiologists), clinicians (physiotherapists), clinicians, and patients from Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United States.
OPTIKNEE is a “portmanteau’ word, or a word that results from blending two or more words, or parts of words. In this care, ‘Optimize’ and ‘Knee’.
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The goals of OPTIKNEE are to:
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Synthesize existing evidence related to traumatic knee injuries and post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis
To date, the OPTIKNEE group has conducted 7 systematic reviews:
- Long-term quality of life, work limitation, physical activity, economic cost and disease burden following ACL and meniscal injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis for the OPTIKNEE consensus
- Risk factors for knee osteoarthritis after traumatic knee injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and cohort studies for the OPTIKNEE Consensus
- Rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injuries: A best-evidence synthesis of systematic reviews for the OPTIKNEE Consensus
- The effects of different management strategies or rehabilitation approaches on knee joint structural and molecular biomarkers following traumatic knee injury: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials for the OPTIKNEE Consensus
- Meaningful thresholds for patient-reported outcomes following interventions for anterior cruciate ligament tear or traumatic meniscus injury: a systematic review for the OPTIKNEE Consensus
- What tests should be used to assess functional performance in youth and young adults following anterior cruciate ligament or meniscal injury? A systematic review of measurement properties for the OPTIKNEE consensus
- Measurement properties for muscle strength tests following anterior cruciate ligament and/or meniscus injury: What tests to use and where do we need to go? A systematic review with meta-analyses for the OPTIKNEE consensus
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Complete a consensus exercise to inform how to optimize knee health after a traumatic knee injury to prevent post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis
The OPTIKNEE 2022 Consensus is open-access and was published in the OPTIKNEE edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine in December 2022
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Develop clinical recommendations to guide rehabilitation to improve knee health and prevent osteoarthritis after a traumatic knee injury.
Clinical recommendations guide
- Who to target
- When to target
- What to target
- What to do
- What to monitor
- How to monitor
OPTIKNEE Clinical Recommendations: Language Translations
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Develop research recommendations for best research practice and harmonizing outcomes to facilitate data synthesis to move the field of traumatic knee injury care and osteoarthritis prevention forward.
Research recommendations guide
- Best research practice
- Core outcomes to harmonize and facilitate data synthesis
OPTIKNEE Research Recommendations: Language Translations
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Identify and prioritize knowledge gaps to move the field of traumatic knee injury care and osteoarthritis prevention forward.
Priority knowledge gaps
- Stakeholder engagement
- Future research
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Engage with key stakeholder groups (patients, healthcare providers etc.) to ensure the relevance of the direction and any outputs
Evidence Synthesis
OPTIKNEE Steering Committee
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Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia and Senior Research Scientist at Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Knee Injury Group within the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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Associate Professor, Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Professor, Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy and Center for Muscle and Joint Health, Department of Sports and Clinical Biomechanics at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Professor and Director of the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
OPTIKNEE Members
Review Leads & Senior Authors
Consensus Members
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