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Post by patobanton on Dec 15, 2008 19:06:53 GMT
info on suspected mama injury: An Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear is a fairly common knee injury in sports that involve changing direction and turning. The ACL lies deep within the knee joint, connecting the thigh bone with the shin bone. The function of the ACL is to prevent excessive forward movement of the shin in relation to the thigh and also to prevent excessive rotation at the knee joint. The ACL plays a major role in maintaining knee joint stability. Stage 1: Pre-operative stage Stage 2: Week one following surgery Stage 3: Concentrated rehab (weeks 1 - 12) Stage 4: Late rehab (weeks 13 - 20) Stage 5: Functional rehab (week 20+) The current thoughts on ACL rehabilitation are based on the so-called accelerated programme, first used in the early nineties by American surgeon Donald Shelbourne. Shelbourne and his colleagues astutely noticed that those patients who did not adhere to the 'softly softly' program used then, actually got better more quickly than those who did and, furthermore, they had less instability in the knee. The key observation made by Shelbourne was that the patients who achieved early full range of motion tended to do better. Based on these findings, a four stage rehabilitation protocol has been devised. In all cases, the surgeon dictates the type of rehabilitation followed, depending on the surgical technique used. It must be stressed that this progamme is only appropriate if the surgeon uses a bone patella tendon bone graft. for info: www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.phpat least liam should be back for man u
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