170: How Professional Athletes Compete 1 Week Post ACL Injury And How To Rehab For The Long Term
Science for Sport Podcast
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How to Improve Performance Pre-Injury
I think looking particularly in the early stages from a rehab perspective look at it as two separate programs which can be run concurrently alongside each other. The value within having a decent sort of pre-hab period is you can test some of these physical quality pre-injury and actually establish some base lines. You can do seated skier arms on the airbike albeit it's horrible to do but actually it's starting to develop the sort of cardiovascular fitness side of things on those modalities. Obviously as you transition through your rehab you're going to transition onto the bike and then you're Going to Transition through return to running or high speed running. Then when you return to running rather than it being rehab
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