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ACL Prevention & Performance Enhancement

GUEST POST: Mika Bussey, “Celebrate the Little Victories”

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Pushing the Envelope in ACL Rehab: Is OKC Strengthening Really OK?

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HINDSIGHT 2020: Lessons Learned from Four ACL Injuries

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“Top 5” ACL Injury Prevention Exercises

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Comeback SZN: Return to Sport after ACL Reconstruction

Read time: 7-10 minutes

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🧠 Can’t stress the importance of concussion awareness enough! Knees are great, but please please protect your brain! @taylortwellman @spauldingrehab . #Repost @mayouthsoccer ・・・ ‪Excellent opportunity for Youth Soccer Coaches and Administrators to become more aware and informed on Concussions in soccer. ‬ ‪The event will be hosted by Taylor Twellman and the @nerevolution. Please RSVP to emilyr@revolutionsoccer.org to reserve your spot! . #just4kicksboston #concussion #concussionawareness #injuryprevention #riskreduction #returntosport #returntoplay #physicaltherapy #rehabilitation #soccer #newenglandsoccer #mayouthsoccer

🔥🔥🔥 #Repost @athleticevolutionpt ・・・ 🏋🏼‍♂️ While the majority of athletes are strong in the sagittal, it is absolutely essential to strengthen and stabilize in the frontal and transverse planes as well. . 🏈 Here, you can see our athlete @thegreatdanedre performing the clamshell exercise (at 30 degrees hip flexion) with both concentric and eccentric manual resistance from @drjhubbsy. On every 5th repetition, our athlete also completes a set of rhythmic stabilizations, whereby the therapist helps re-educate muscles surrounding a particular joint to react to random movement that may occur during activities of daily living and/or sport. . 🤓 Since contributions from gluteus medius, gluteus maximus, and deep hip external rotators vary based on amount of hip flexion, it is important to perform this exercise at both 0 and 30 degrees of hip flexion. Remember to help stabilize your athletes iliac crest with one hand to provide both a tactile cue and help prevent posterior compensation of the pelvis. Think this exercise looks easy? Come on in and give it a try! . What do you think? Tag a clinician or athlete and let us know below 💪🏼 . #athleticevolution #physicaltherapy #rehabilitation #hipstabilization #glutes #injuryprevention #injuryreduction #dpt #dptstudent #atc @athleticevolution

#Repost @coach_brettb ・・・ Not a bad axiom! Though one sure to offend some. Take a second to think about what this quote is truly saying before you get up in arms. Comment “yes” below if you spend at least a portion of your weekend reading. #consciouscoaching

Scraping through Monday like.. . #just4kicksboston #anteriorcruciateligament #aclrehab #aclrecovery #aclreconstruction #aclsurgery #physicaltherapy #physiotherapy #dpt #physio #atc #rehabilitation #injuryprevention #returntosport #returntoplay #strengthtraining #soccer #soccerinjury #nwsl #wleague #ncaa

Just4Kicks Boston takes on New Hampshire! STOKED to cross state lines to talk to the Nashua North High School girls’ soccer team this Friday, August 23rd at 3PM. Come and bring your questions about ACL injury prevention/rehab, recovery, collegiate soccer, and more! . #just4kicksboston #anteriorcruciateligament #aclrehab #aclrecovery #aclreconstruction #aclsurgery #physicaltherapy #physiotherapy #dpt #physio #atc #rehabilitation #injuryprevention #returntosport #returntoplay #strengthtraining #soccer #soccerinjury #nwsl #wleague #ncaa @jjb309

🤔 What criteria and clinical decision-making should be used to determine when athlete can return to sport following ACLR? This seems to be one of the most challenging and unsolved questions in rehabilitation, as there continues to be no universal consensus. The decision to return an athlete back into competition has significant implications, ranging from safety of the athlete, to performance, to even litigation/liability issues. . 📚 In a systematic review by Barber-Westin & Noyes (2011), researchers found that on average, 40% of clinicians fail to provide any criteria for return to sport, while 32% cite only time and 15% citing time and subjective criteria. What’s perhaps even more alarming is that with a 20-25% re-injury rate of the involved or contralateral limb, only 13% of clinicians used objective measure of any kind 🤯 . 🔎 Objective measurement is something that can be measured consistently. When deciding when an athlete can return to sport safetly and without compromised performance, I look at basic measurements (effusion, knee integrity, lower extremity ROM), strength (isokinetic or HHD), single leg stability (drop jump/step landing), power (vertical/broad jump), functional hop testing (single hop, triple hop, cross-over hop, timed 6-M hop), as well as various psychological readiness and patient-reported outcomes (ACL-RSI, TSK-11, IKDC 2000). Due to the shortcomings of limb symmetry indices, I also use allometric scaling when applicable and perform my battery of clearance tests in a fatigued state, as many (if not most) ACL injuries occur during the last quarter or half of a competition. . I aim for above 90% LSI (ideally >95%) with H/Q ratios above 75% for our athletes. I also use Sportsmetrics software to quantitatively calculate normalized knee separation distance (>60%) for drop jump landings and aim to identify qualitative characteristics of dynamic knee valgus, medial-lateral movement, or pelvic tilt during single-leg tasks. . Very proud of @orianehoeman who successfully completed and passed the Just4Kicks Return to Sport program/assessment this summer! I have no doubt you will do great things this season at SNHU! Good luck (you don’t need it 😉)!

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