Return to Play: The 11-Phase Rehabilitation Pathway

Andrew Mitchell (RB Leipzig) knows a thing or two about supporting athletes to return to play after injury, especially in professional football/soccer.

Today, Andrew explains his return to performance pathway, which is a criteria-based approach to help you and the athlete keep focused on the athlete's return to performance goal.

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RESOURCES

Andrew's return to performance pathway: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptopen.2024.1240

Clinical pearls for supporting return to performance: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptcases.2021.0103

Control-chaos continuum for progressing rehabilitation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30737202/

On-field rehabilitation progression (part 1): https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2019.8954

On-field rehabilitation progression (part 2): https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2019.8952