Material and methods
bone-patellar tendon-bone
The study was designed as a pilot double-blinded randomized controlled trial carried out on 20 male athletes who underwent unilateral arthroscopic ACLR surgery with bone-patellar tendon-bone graft between March 2020 and March 2021. The Research Ethics Committee of Tarbiat Modares University approved the study (IR.MODARES.REC.1398.124) and all patients provided written informed consent. The study was carried out based on the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Our study was also approved as a pilot randomized controlled trial study in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials with the ID of IRCT20191013045090N1 on 03-03-2020.Also, the patients signed a written Persian consent form and announced their agreement to participate in the study and for publication of the results with respect to the confidentiality of personal data.