
Ep 24: Foundations for return to sport after Achilles tendon rupture, with Dr Karin Silbernagel (Part 2 of 2)
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The Importance of Return to Sport Testing for Elite Athletes
Return to sport testing is a series of tests that we're doing over time. We don't just do a return to sport test once and then say okay see you later I never want to see you again go back to playing NBA this is an important concept. Most patients have some decrease in plant affliction power with Killy Center ruptures. What you do when you run and jump in the higher levels you seem to compensate that at the knee. So if you know that I tell them okay you need to make sure they have really good quad and hamstrings muscle because your knee is going to have to compensate maybe 10% of what you've lost in the calf.
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