RESEARCH ARTICLE


The Heidelberg Sports Activity Score - A New Instrument to Evaluate Sports Activity



JB Seeger1, *, S Weinmann2, H Schmitt 3, T Bruckner4, M Krueger2, M Clarius5
1 Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg (UKGM), Klinikstraße 33, 35392 Giessen, Germany
2 Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Paraplegiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany
3 ATOS Klinik Heidelberg, Bismarckplatz 9-15, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
4 Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 305, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
5 Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Vulpius Klinik GmbH, Vulpiusstraße 29, 74906 Bad Rappenau, Germany

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Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2013
Volume: 7
First Page: 25
Last Page: 32
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-7-25
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001307010025

Article History:

Received Date: 17/8/2012
Revision Received Date: 19/12/2012
Acceptance Date: 27/12/2012
Electronic publication date: 21/1/2013
Collection year: 2013

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Klinikstrasse 33, D-35392 Giessen, Germany; Tel: +49-641-985-42616; Fax: +49-641-985-42629; E-mail: joern.seeger@uk-gm.de


Abstract

Objective:

An appropriate measuring instrument for assessing if sports activity changes after a surgical treatment is not available yet. We hypothesised that the Heidelberg Sport Activity Score is a valid and adequate instrument for measuring sport activity in patients before and after operative treatment.

Design:

This retrospective study presents a new score (Heidelberg Sports Activity Score - HAS) for measuring the sport activity in 11 selected sports. Validity, sensitivity and test-retest-reliability have been assessed.

Setting:

The score includes importance of the sports for patients, impairment of the corresponding joint, and frequency and duration of the sporting activities undertaken. The HAS was validated using 3 criteria: external validation, internal comparison of groups and correlation with the Tegner Score.

Patients:

A total of 655 patients were recruited for this study. The inclusion criterion was a planned or already received reconstruction (such as a high tibial osteotomy or implantation of a hip or knee prosthesis). The sport activity of these patients was evaluated before and after treatment.

Main Outcome Measurement:

The mean HAS was 32.1 points preoperatively and 37.0 postoperatively (p=0.017).

Results:

A high correlation was found between the HAS and the Tegner Score (TS) (r=0.729; p=0.010). The Test-Retest- Reliability was performed within a time interval of 2 weeks and a significant correlation of r=0.752 was found (p<0.01). Sensitivity was analysed using a sample of patients before and after high tibial osteotomy.

Conclusions:

The HAS is a new, easy to use, effective and valid measuring instrument for the assessment of sports activity in patients before and after operative treatment.

Keywords: Sports activity, activity score, medial osteoarthritis, high tibial osteotomy.