The TSK-11: The importance using of Patient Reported Outcome for Return to Play decisions
The TSK-11 and Patient Reported Outcome Measures DorsaVi’s Athletic Movement Index (AMI) is an amazing tool for clinicians to make Return to Play decisions, but we hope to encourage our customers to increase the validity of their Return to Play assessments by utilizing Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs), specifically the Tampa Scale Kinesophobia-11 (TSK-11). What is the TSK-11? And why is this PROM so important in ACL Return to Play assessments? The TSK-11 is a questionnaire designed to assess an athlete’s mental status after sustaining a lower extremity injury; primarily used in the ACL sphere, it also has some application with foot, ankle and hip injuries (click here to check out the TSK-11 questionnaire). Ultimately, the TSK-11 assesses the athlete’s fear to bear weight and trust their previously injured limb . For example, if an athlete sustains an ACL injury and has reconstructive surgery on his right leg, they are likely fearful of cutting right and weig...