Developing Resilient Hamstrings: A Balanced Approach to a Dichotomised Debate
Introduction Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are one of the most common time loss injuries in sprint based sports (Bramah et al 2023)....
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Insights into the Protection Phase post ACL Injury & Reconstruction
Image 0: Depiction of ACL anatomy Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction (ACLr) is a common and complicated recovery journey that...
Rehabilitation of a High Grade MCL Tear - Utilising a Systems Based Approach
For contact sport athletes, a common injury which is prevalent is an injury to the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) of the knee. As a...
Assessment of Hamstring Strength Post ACLR
For the hamstring graft ACLR, the importance of functional restoration of hamstring strength is paramount to a successful recovery. As...
ACL Graft Selection & Early - Mid Stage Rehab: Considerations for the Rehab Professional
When assessing the suitability of graft donor sites for athletes prior to ACL reconstruction (ACLr), there are many factors that may be...
Failure of the Hamstring Graft ACLR: Part 2 - Addressing Rehabilitation
Failure of Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction (ACLr) currently sits at a rate of ~25-30% when accounting for ipsilateral &...
Efficacy of Hop Testing Post ACLR: Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bath Water
With increasing incidence of ACL re-injury rates, there has been scrutiny placed on the current practices of surgical intervention and...
Failure of Hamstring Graft ACLR: Part 1 - The Role of Eccentric Strength
In current clinical practice, there is a disparity between the rate of ACL ipsilateral re-injury in elite sport compared to sub-elite...
Tales from the Trenches: Pandemic to Presenter
It's the 23rd March 2020, I am sitting in my bedroom when a phone call lights up my phone, it's my boss at the new clinic I had just...
Creating a Rehabilitation Timeline
One of the biggest disparities I see between performance based programming and rehabilitation based programming is that a performance...
Low Amplitude Plyometric Progressions
Training at the foot and ankle is an important consideration during lower limb rehab for the implications that it has to the athlete when...
Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition: An important consideration post ACLR
Muscular atrophy is a common occurrence post ACL injury and even more-so post ACLR, this morbidity is a primary cause for ongoing...
How to Structure a Rehab Session?
One of my biggest bugbears in the rehabilitation industry is that people who get given a rehab program tend to be given a shopping list...
The Future of Sports Rehabilitation in the Private Sector: Is it time to abandon an old model?
When I was training to become a physiotherapist, sitting in a sweaty tutorial room in the nations capital; the image of healthcare that...
Blood Flow Restriction Training Post ACLR: What is it and why is it useful?
Within non-professional sport settings, low levels of return to performance rates and high levels of reinjury rates are common issues...
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