How to optimise your groin rehabilitation with Dr Stacey Hardin
Apr 10, 2024
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Dr Stacey Hardin, expert in groin rehab and sports medicine, shares insights on patient monitoring, exercise selection, gradual progression, and return-to-play criteria. She emphasizes the importance of athlete involvement, structured frameworks, targeting multiple muscle groups, monitoring ratios, pain tolerance evaluation, and safe loading for effective groin rehabilitation.
Monitoring groin pain and function is crucial for athlete rehab, using methods like the five-second squeeze test.
Structured return-to-play plans are vital for successful rehabilitation, involving athlete input for empowerment and progress checks.
Deep dives
Monitoring Groin Pain and Function
Monitoring groin pain and function is essential in rehabilitating athletes with groin pain. Methods such as the five-second squeeze test have been extensively studied and validated for this purpose. Stacey Hardin, a high-performance practitioner, emphasizes the importance of realistic expectations during the rehab process and highlights the minimal clinically relevant changes seen in pain or function in professional athletes throughout a season.
Return to Play Frameworks
Having a structured return to play framework is crucial in the rehabilitation process. Stacey likens it to a cross-country road trip, emphasizing the need for a plan with checks and balances to ensure progress. Involving the athlete in the plan is essential for their buy-in and understanding, ultimately empowering them to take control of their rehab process.
Importance of Exercise Selection and Pain Management
Proper exercise selection plays a key role in targeting specific muscles for optimal rehabilitation outcomes. Research indicates the importance of dosing exercises appropriately to strengthen targeted muscle groups. Stacey highlights the significance of educating patients on pain levels during exercises, recommending a pain scale of zero to ten and explaining the importance of pain trends post-activity to guide the rehab process effectively.
In this episode with Dr Stacey Hardin, we delve into groin rehabilitation, focusing on patient monitoring, exercise selection, gradual progression, and return-to-play criteria. Stacey shares practical insights for optimising rehabilitation outcomes, making it a must-listen for physiotherapists and sports medicine professionals.
Want to learn more about groin rehabilitation? Stacey recently did an excellent Masterclass with us called, “Mastering Groin Pain: From Injury to Return-to-Play” where she goes into further depth on groin injuries and rehabilitation.
Stacey Hardin is a physical therapist and athletic trainer based in the United States. She has worked in elite soccer for over 10 years and currently works as the Director of Medical for Bay FC. In addition to her work in professional soccer, Stacey is actively involved in applied research and education.
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Our host is @James_Armstrong_Physio from Physio Network
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