What You Need to Know After ACL Surgery
Our staff has over 15 years of experience working with NCAA D1 and professional athletes. We work with over 20 competitive athletes each year as they recover from ACL injury. We have presented at regional conferences educating other physical therapists, strength coaches and athletic trainers surrounding ACL rehab.
Now we have developed an online course for you to help provide you with the latest, evidence based information to help you after your ACL surgery.
We will provide you resources, answers to common questions, and questions you should ask your doctor and physical therapist along the way.
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The Basics
Simple, but not easy.
The first 16 weeks of your ACL rehab seem relatively simple. The exercises are not that complex, and the milestones are small.
But, it is critically important to to get the basics right in this stage to set you up for success in later stages of the ACL rehab process.
We will cover exercises you should be doing, common restrictions and precautions. We will also layout the specific goals you need to hit by the end of this phase to move forward safely.
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Recover Your Horsepower
From roughly 16 weeks until 28 weeks we are focused on rebuilding your strength, power and speed.
We will cover what you should be doing in the gym, in rehab on on the field or court to start rebuilding your athleticism and conditioning.
We will layout the specific goals you need to hit by the end of this phase to start progressing back to your sport.
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Sport-Specific Progressions
Once you've mastered the basics and restored your basic athleticism, it is time to get sport specific.
We will layout how we approach sport specific rehab in the clinic and how you can safely progress back into individual sport specic skill work, practice progressions and ultimately competition.
We will layout recommendations on specific metrics that you need to hit at each stage of the return-to-sport process so that you minimize your risk of reinjury at this stage of your rehab.
