Linda K Truong

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at University of British Columbia

Background Athlete injury risk assessment and management is an important, yet challenging task for sport and exercise medicine professionals. A common approach to injury risk screening is to stratify athletes into risk groups based on their performance on a test relative to a cut-off threshold. However, one potential reason for ineffective injury p...

Objective: Explore how social support influences exercise therapy participation and adherence before and after enrolling in an education and exercise therapy intervention (Stop OsteoARthritis, SOAR). Methods: Study design: Interpretative description. We sampled participants with sport-related knee injuries from the SOAR randomized controlled tri...

Objective To identify and quantify potential risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA) following traumatic knee injury.Design Systematic review and meta-analyses that estimated the odds of OA for individual risk factors assessed in more than four studies using random-effects models. Remaining risk factors underwent semiquantitative synthesis. The modifi...

Objective Describe participants’ perspectives about the feasibility of a virtual, physiotherapist-guided knee health program for people at risk of post-traumatic osteoarthritis after a sport-related knee injury. Design Qualitative description study nested within a quasi-experimental study evaluating the feasibility of the Stop OsteoARthritis (SOAR...

The goal of the OPTIKNEE consensus is to improve knee and overall health, to prevent osteoarthritis (OA) after a traumatic knee injury. The consensus followed a seven-step hybrid process. Expert groups conducted 7 systematic reviews to synthesise the current evidence and inform recommendations on the burden of knee injuries; risk factors for post-t...

Objective To identify and quantify potential risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA) following traumatic knee injury. Design Systematic review and meta-analyses that estimated the odds of OA for individual risk factors assessed in more than four studies using random-effects models. Remaining risk factors underwent semiquantitative synthesis. The modi...

Objective Assess the feasibility of a virtually-delivered, physiotherapist-guided knee health program (SOAR) that targets self-management of knee health and osteoarthritis risk after an activity-related knee injury. Design In this quasi-experimental feasibility study, individuals with varied lived experience of knee trauma completed a 4-week SOAR...

Background Knee trauma permanently elevates one’s risk for knee osteoarthritis. Despite this, people at-risk of post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis rarely seek or receive care, and accessible and efficacious interventions to promote knee health after injury are lacking. Exercise can ameliorate some mechanisms and independent risk factors for osteoar...

Introduction SOAR (Stop OsteoARthritis) is a virtual, physiotherapist-guided knee health program that aims to reduce osteoarthritis risk after sport-related knee trauma. This study qualitatively explored individuals’ experiences of the SOAR program. Materials and Methods Individuals with varied lived experience of knee trauma completed a 4-week SO...

Introduction It is unclear why some people develop osteoarthritis after knee trauma and others don’t. This study identified risk factors for osteoarthritis following knee trauma. Materials and Methods After protocol registration, 5 databases were searched to 09–2021. RCTs and cohort studies assessing risk factors for symptomatic or structural oste...

Objective: To identify the most suitable existing generic and condition-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for active youth with and without a musculoskeletal injury, based on measurement properties, interpretability, and feasibility. Design: Systematic review of clinimetrics. Literature se...

Attitudes, priorities, and perceptions of exercise directly influence exercise behaviors. Despite the benefits of exercise‐based activities for future health, little is known about how youth who experience an ACL injury view exercise‐based activity beyond the immediate recovery period. A qualitative (interpretative description) approach with one‐to...

Objective Systematically review and synthesize guidelines, systematic reviews, or randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published between April 1, 2019 and April 30, 2020 which evaluated or made recommendations for rehabilitation of persons with osteoarthritis. Design Five electronic databases (Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane CENTRAL, CINHAL, Web of Scien...

Objective: To identify and categorize barriers, facilitators, and strategies to boost exercise therapy adherence in youth with musculoskeletal conditions to inform research and clinical practice. Design: Scoping review. Literature search: MEDLINE, CINAHL, SportDiscus, SCOPUS, PEDro and ProQuest from inception to October 1, 2019. Study selecti...

Objective To explore the role of psychological, social and contextual factors across the recovery stages (ie, acute, rehabilitation or return to sport (RTS)) following a traumatic time-loss sport-related knee injury. Material and methods This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scopi...

Physical therapy (PT) is commonly prescribed for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS); however, little is known about its effectiveness. To systematically review randomized controlled trials (RCT), controlled trials and cohort studies evaluating the effectiveness of PT for LSS. Studies were searched on electronic databases to January 2012. In...