Activity scales are used throughout orthopaedics as a component of PROMs. Tegner Activity Scale is commonly used and is validated in various knee injuries in adults. It has a reading age of 18 years presenting an understanding problem for children. An alternative is HSS-PediFABS, but this looks at specific skills like running, cutting, pivoting rather than sporting level. Our aim was to determine if children understood TAS and whether their answers compared to how their parents scored them and determine if our suggested sporting levels were more appropriate for them. We created a study form to compare levels given by children and their parent. We added our own suggested levels, with a reading age of 9, created by a discussion group of paediatric orthopaedic surgeons. Following ethics approval, a sample size was determined via power calculation. All patients over 7 and their parents presenting to the orthopaedic clinic at SCH over a 4-month period were asked to fill out the TAS, baseline questions and rank the new suggested sporting levels.Introduction
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