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170: How Professional Athletes Compete 1 Week Post ACL Injury And How To Rehab For The Long Term

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How to Pre-Hab an ACL Injury

If you can sort of pre-ability pre-hab the injury as best as possible you're winning did the research suggests that from a muscular inhibition and atrophy of respect if you're losing about five percent per day. The more you can offset that in the pre-hab stage and build as much muscle tissue and and go into that surgery with this as quiet joint i.e. limited swelling, full range of motion,. not red, not hot and you're actually able to get some loading through it like that is a big thing for me. After four to six weeks ideally four you have a quiet knee so as a little swelling as possible no redness no heat you've got full extension

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