Discordance Between Patient-Reported Outcomes and Heel-Rise Limb Symmetry After Surgical Repair of Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture
Firat Dogruoz, Aydogan Askin, Ali Ergun, Emre Mucahit Kartal, Serkan Gurcan, Ozkan Kose · 2026
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Patients feel recovered long before their calf agrees, Firat Dogruoz and colleagues show in a 2026 study of Achilles tendon repair. Seventy-six men who had open surgery for acute rupture between 2015 and 2023, followed for at least a year, completed two standard outcome questionnaires. A single-leg heel-rise test supplied the hard measure, scored as symmetry against the uninjured side.
Median questionnaire scores looked superb, at 97 and 98 points. Median heel-rise symmetry, though, reached only 87.5 percent, and just 40.8 percent of men cleared the ninety percent bar. Scores and symmetry barely correlated. Clinicians, the authors argue, should pair what patients report with what the leg can actually do.
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| CREATOR | Firat Dogruoz, Aydogan Askin, Ali Ergun, Emre Mucahit Kartal, Serkan Gurcan, Ozkan Kose |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31824 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |