The advanced stages of ACL rehabilitation are enjoyable to progress your patients through, and at the same time challenging to find the right exercises, and optimise the rate of progression through to return to training (RTT) and return to play (RTP). In this episode, Enda King from the Sports Surgery Clinic Dublin and David Pope discuss these later stages of rehabilitating your patients following an ACL Reconstruction.

We discussed the prehabilitation and early stage ACL Rehab in the Physio Edge podcast episode 32, and episode 34 Enda and I cover in detail:

Return to straight line running and change of direction
Advanced Exercise Programming
What exercises to choose
Proprioception and motor control training
Strength and power programming
Periodisation
Sports specific conditioning
Plyometrics – readiness, what to use and timing of these in the training schedule
Multi-directional performance
Strength testing – what Enda uses, indicators of strength
Decisions on return to training
Return to contact
Decision making on Return to play
Bridging the gap between the gym and the field
Advice for Physios rehabilitating athletes recovering from an ACL reconstruction
When to discharge an ACL athlete and much more

Links of interest

034. Advanced ACL rehab with Enda King