“…Almost half of the Surgery Group proceeded to ACLR within 90 days of injury, and 80% within 180 days of injury. There is no accepted definition for early or delayed ACLR (Beynnon et al, 2005), with "early" defined as between two days and seven months of DOI, and "delayed" as between three weeks and 24 years (Anderson et al, 2016). There are equivocal differences in outcomes between patients undergoing early verses delayed ACLR (Anderson et al, 2016;Eriksson, von Essen, Jönhagen, & Barenius, 2018;Lee, Lee, Lee, & Hui, 2018;Smith, Postle, Penny, McNamara, & Mann, 2014;Wittenberg, Oxfort, & Plafki, 1998), although early surgical intervention may reduce the risk of subsequent meniscal or chondral injury, both of which are associated with worse outcomes following ACLR (Cinque et al, 2018;Cox et al, 2014).…”