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Recent studies have shown that knee stability can increase without surgical intervention in patients with ACL and MCL injuries. Regarding the importance of functional tests in return to exercise prediction, this study aims to measure nonsurgical approach's long-term outcome for concomitant ACL and MCL injuries with a focus on functional tests. This is a case-control study with a 2-year follow-up. The case group consisted of patients who had provided written consent and completed their 2-year follow-up, and the control group was made up of healthy people who did not have any knee medical conditions and were matched by age, gender, and activity level. Physical examinations, Tegner and International Knee Documentation Committee questionnaires, and knee magnetic resonance imaging were conducted, and functional performance tests were performed after a 10-minute warm-up. Lody's index (the ratio of injured-to-uninjured knee results) was calculated. The data were analyzed using independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, chi-squared test, and Fisher's exact test. The study involved 11 patients in each concomitant ACL and MCL injury cases and healthy control groups with a mean age of 32.4 and 28 years, respectively. None of the patients reported knee instability symptoms in the 2-year follow-up. More than half of the patients continued their sports field without reinjury, with no significant difference in activity levels between case and control groups. The 6-meter hop test and single-leg hop test showed no significant difference between case and control groups (p-value: 0.326, 0.859), and no significant difference was observed in the three Carioca, cocontraction, and Shuttle tests in the 2-year follow-up. Functional tests in ACL and MCL injuries revealed normal outcomes, implying a nonsurgical approach for patients with proximal ACL tears, better knee stability, and no significant differences between the injured and control groups.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-2281-1736","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,6]],"date-time":"2024-03-06T00:59:51Z","timestamp":1709686791000},"page":"730-735","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Two-Year Functional Outcomes of Nonsurgical Treatment in Concomitant Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Medial Collateral Ligament Injuries: A Case-Control Study"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Heleh","family":"Dadgostar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, School of Medicine, Hazrat e Rasool General Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 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