Translation into modern standard Arabic, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties’ evaluation of the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) in Arabic-speaking athletes with Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury

• Vasileios Korakakis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vasileios Korakakis, Michael Saretsky, Rodney Whiteley

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Vasileios.Korakakis@aspetar.com

  Affiliations Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece, Hellenic Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy Diploma (HOMTD), Athens, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8033-3934

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• Michael Saretsky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vasileios Korakakis, Michael Saretsky, Rodney Whiteley

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Rodney Whiteley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vasileios Korakakis, Michael Saretsky, Rodney Whiteley

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Matthew C. Azzopardi ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Jasenko Klauznicer ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Abdallah Itani ,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Omar Al Sayrafi ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

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• Giannis Giakas ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece

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• Nikolaos Malliaropoulos

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Sports and Exercise Medicine Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece, National Track & Field Centre, Sports Medicine Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece, European Sports Care, London, United Kingdom

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