Mind of the Athlete Returning from an Injury
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Fear of reinjury after ACL surgery
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How long does it to take to return to sports after an ACL injury?
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When can you return to sports after ACL surgery?
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Once muscle strength and flexibility return you can slowly get back into your sport, working at about 50 to 70 percent max capacity for a few weeks During this re-entry phase, functional drills for balance, agility, and speed can be added as tolerated. Guidelines for Safe Return to Sports.Guidelines for a Safe Return to Sports After an Injury. Here are a few indicators that it’s safe to return to playing sports after your injury and recovery: Absence of pain.
Absence of swelling and inflammation. Restoration of full range of motion. Regained strength.If it’s an overuse injury (often caused by biomechanical factors, poor technique, or a sudden increase in training volume), you’re probably best off seeing a physiotherapist or sports medicine doctor.
However, it really depends on your level of pain.Grade 4 – We recommend a 30-day break with a first injury, 90-day break with a second injury, and a 180-day break after a third injury. They may then return to play if they are asymptomatic and neurocognitive testing is favorable as compared to the baseline.
We recommend that athletes not return to play after three Grade 4 injuries.Home > When is it safe to return to sport after injury. When is it safe to return to sport after injury. Lucy Macdonald, one of the Octopus Clinic physios, provides expert advice in this article including how to recover from the three most common football injuries (groin strain, ankle sprain and hamstring injuries) and how to tell if there is something severe going on like a fracture of a.
Returning to sports depends on the type of injury, the severity of the injury, age, physical condition of the individual who sustained the injury, how quickly the individual began treatment, what the treatment consisted of, how committed the patient is to their rehabilitation, and the patient’s attitude and beliefs towards recovery!Getting a correct diagnosis and developing a safe treatment plan are just part of the equation when it comes to returning to sports after a back injury. Today, we explore the best ways to get back on the field or court following a spine injury.If athletes, coaches, staff, officiates, school participants and spectators are feeling sick or ill, they should not attend practice or competition.
We recommend a phased approach or gradual return to sport in order to allow athletes to get back into shape, tolerate the heat and decrease their risk of injury.After your concussion symptoms disappear, your healthcare professional may allow you to go back to your activities. However, your provider may suggest you ease into work, school or physical activities with a five-step progressive plan as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Youth sports organizations may consider implementing several strategies to encourage behaviors that reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Staying Home when Appropriate. Educate staff and player families about when they should stay home and when they can return to activity Actively encourage sick staff, families, and players to stay home.Making A Safe Return To Sports After A Back Injury If you can say yes to every bulleted item below, you can slowly start to return to athletic activity. You can move without pain or with minimal discomfort.
You have full or nearly-full range of motion.In general, athletes can return to contact sports after cervical spine injury if they are asymptomatic with full ROM, they regain preinjury neck strength, and their imaging shows no evidence of “functional” spinal stenosis including a normal lordotic curvature, no evidence of disc disease, and no evidence of instability.His parents say he should never have been allowed to return to play. In May 2009, Washington State passed the Zackery Lystedt Law, the nation’s toughest return-to-play law aiding young athletes concussion recovery.
It requires medical clearance of youth athletes under the age of 18 suspected of sustaining a concussion before they can be sent.Grindem, et al., directly state that applying basic decision rules will reduce re-injury risk by greater than 80 percent. 11 Most frightening to athletic trainers: They espoused that returning to level 1 sports leads to a fourfold increase in re-injury over a two-year window. After examining biologic and functional data, Nagelli and Hewett wish us to consider a two-year wait on return to play following.
“Return to play refers to the point in recovery from an injury when a person is able to go back to playing sports or participate in an activity at a pre-injury level 1.” An injury can be minor and not require you to stop competing or major and require a long rehabilitation training program.
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| from Return to Sport after ACL Reconstruction and Other Knee Operations: Limiting the Risk of Reinjury and Maximizing Athletic Performance |
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| from Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance: Third Edition |
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| from Handball Sports Medicine: Basic Science, Injury Management and Return to Sport |
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| from Return to Play in Football: An Evidence-based Approach |
58 comments
HI Whilst i was running straight line i felt i crack in my knee not big pain but later on started swelling but i could carry on for the rest of the day with not much pain is anything to worry about
i am 9 months post op
once again thank you Doctor
Hi everyone I’m going to be getting ACL surgery on Tuesday I’m sooooo scared��
How long does it take to be able to kick the ball after Acl surgery
Hi Doctor,
Its almost 4 month of acl surgery,and i have started jogging and i am thinking of start light soccer playing,is it will be ok Doctor?
Sir I want to return to sports.
Should I go for single bundle or double bundle acl reconstruction.
I can manage single bundle but for double i will have to go to other city and have financial shortage.
Hey Doctor I completely tore my acl while playing tennis, I was hoping if you could please me figure what kind of surgery should I consider! Acl reconstruction or Repair?
i tore my ACL august 2017, now I’m going to MRI scan and waiting the result in 2 weeks, i can wait to get surgery so i can comeback to my favourite sport football. Can i get my pre injury ability when I’m comeback to sport? sorry bad english
Thoughts about single bundle hamstring graft acl surgery vs double bundle graft? Im just bout to undergo an acl surgery and im a high level athlete like soccer player which requires a lot of pivoting,cutting and twisting etc.
Hi my knee can not go straight like my other knee i under went surgery 10 months ago and i want to return to rugby would it be safe to start playing
Sir i had acl surgery 2 year back and i want to try for Armed Forces..is it possible for me to get back to normal knee now???
Need your help sir! I tore my ACL in July 2018. It is 14th February 2019 as I post this comment. My reports indicated that I have a partial tear in my ACL. As of this day, I can do brisk walk, jump rope, hop on one leg (with my injured leg), climb stairs without surgery although I haven’t been able to go back to normal yet and by that I mean to say that my knee isn’t fully functional yet. I can not sprint,do agility work or intense workout. My doctor suggests me to undergo reconstruction if I have to go back to sports. Is surgery necessary in my case? Can I go back to sports without surgery?
It was 7 months, strong recovery, hard physical therapy and gym almost everyday working all parts of the body. Had a brace and did a slight movement. Think I tore my acl and meniscus this time
This video is very informative.
I’ve just done my surgery last week
I tore my ACL climbing, i was doing bouldering and i fell from 4 meters… I decided to have surgery, but I am very scared about going back on the wall because falling is part of the sport (in bouder you have no rope)… even watching competition so professional athletes i completely freak out when i see them falling…. probably this is due to the fact that i really considered myself as “unbreakable”… but i was super wrong, a bad landing from an unexpected fall and here I am 35 days post surgery and 3 months post injury
I had my ACL surgery 11 months back i could sprint but I couldn’t run slow. I have little pain when i am slowly running and I couldn’t sit on the floor fully bended the knee
Any suggestion guyz???
My ACL surgry has completed 3 months bt steel i can’t do stairs running nd cycling
Whnver i try it i get swelin nd pain in my Kneee
I’m a patrol Deputy for a Sheriff’s Office. I had my ACL replaced with a cadaver and had my meniscus fix too. When would I be able to go back to patrol in your opinion?
Great video! I am just about 6 months post surgery with a hamstring graft and very happy with where I’m at. I feel like I am very close to returning to soccer, best advice i’ve got for anybody who has yet to go through this process would be to listen to your body!
I had my surgery just over 6 months ago (complete tear of ACL and meniscus). Today I ran 10k in 50 minutes. Not confident enough to be playing football/Soccer again though. Still aches, swells and feels unstable. Aiming to play some football next month.
Well I had the LCA reconstruction last week and I’m already with fear to train again and I’m not Even ready for It.
I know I’ll make it with baby steps, but I’m afraid to reach and overpass the Athletic point where I was when I injured.
Sir partial tear of ligament injury is necessary to do surgery… Plz answer me
13 months ago I had acl surgery. Now after 13 months i started heavy martial arts sport.
I feel pain in my knee. I am scared my knee may get damaged or get worse.
Can someone advice me plz?
Can I continue my sport?
Is the pain normal?
Will my acl get damage if I continue my exercise?
Hello sir….my husband got ACL 6 months ago… doctor did not suggested for physiotherapy..he told for simple exercises upto 3 months..it was going on at home….after 3 months my husband started physiotherapy daily but dis time he is unable to proper walking….plz tell me sir if he will go for proper physiotherapy he will be able to walk properly or not…he is able to fold 90° his knee..he can bend his knee properly or not…
i torn my acl about 10 mnths ago and until little crunching in my knee plz little help does this crunch danger
hey i had acl reconstruction and meniscus in christmas 2017. Its going to be 4 months in exactly a week and I feel really really good. I was running before 3 months post op and started football cone drills about 2 weeks ago. I started testing the movement of shoulder hit with a dummy and it feels really good. I have full mobility and strength is going really well. doctors are amazed with my recovery but I am afraid there is something im missing. Should I keep going? or take a step back? I do all football drills with a knee brace and have minimal swelling after 2h+ practice. Thanks
Hi..i had acl surgery last august 2017..but still i feel pain at the back of my knee and i feel stiffness…what can you advise with me…thanks
Hi Sir You are doing great this.Sir is this Acl can happen after surgery How many chances is this will be good like natural
i am from pakistan
Hi good day…i have acl surgery last august 2017 but still i expirience pain at the back of my knee. how can i ilimanate this pain and back to play basketball again?
i am studying this topic for a school project and one of the things we spoke about in school was a 50 year old male who recently had acl surgery and wants to play tennis we tried coming up with a training plan for him, id love to hear your thoughts! thank you!
I tore my ACL in October in a soccer game. And I waited 4 months to go to a doctor and I got surgery the 16th of February, I got meniscus surgery and my ACL. I don’t fear anything, but it’s but 5 weeks almost since my surgery and I still feel pain in my meniscus, is that normal or does that mean it’s healing?
Hello doc..I am 23 yrs old, I have had went ACL miniscus surgery & it’s 7 1/2 months I haven’t played my sport “volleyball”. Can you please homework on it & tell me how much time will it take me to play my sport aggressively. I want make my come back as soon as possible.. please please do tell me
I had an ACL injury a month ago..am I am getting the physiotherapy done regularly. How long will it take to get healed and when can I start jogging. What all can be done to get the functionality of knee on normal so that I don’t have problem while walking.
Hi, I had acl reconstruction and medial and lateral meniscus repair last december 2016, now its more than a year, I tried to play basketball, every after game I have swelling. Is it because of the meniscus injury? A reply will be greatly appreciated! Thanks Dr!
I’m here because I’m afraid of Carson Wentz returning to football and being as great as he was.
Great video sir.
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I had acl surgery before 6months now again im started my soccer training also but my leg is skidding while playing im so sad about it…..
sir it was postponed due to various reason…some suggested me if you feel pain or any distrubance to walk then you come for surgery..otherwise its not required pls suggest me..wilson from india
Hi I’m from india i had acl surgery.it has been 6 months but some time i feel pain in my knee,is it normal please tell me
It’s been 20 days since my surgery and I’m still wearing my Knee supporter (90 degrees ext.). I’m back at work and walking on my own with no pain. I do my own rehab exercises given to me by my trainer and I feel really good about my recovery. The swelling has decreased drastically and I am close to getting full extension when I remove the supporter. Doing squats and lunges at the moment.
Sir, chinmay from india I had acl surgery before 2 years still Iam not able to run properly.it swells & pains a lot.Iam under training bboy sir what would u suggest for me??
Hey! So I just retire my acl yesterday and would be my third time… I haven’t gotten an MRI because it’s swollen and I asked my therapist how long I should wait and he said 4 days…
Realistically do you think my career in sports or not even career but to actually be active is over??
Do you know any athletes who have overcome 3 acl injuries? Same knee by the way.
I’m devastated because I worked hard in therapy and I would have to do it all over again.. I feel like it’s torn for sure just because it’s really painful and I can’t even bend my knee backwards but an MRI is my best option. Thank you for this video!
I had acl surgery 10-10-17. I used to play competitive soccer and it was part of my life style. Now ive beem doing some reaserch to see when will i be able to play again. Based on the info ive been seeing/watching. I think im going to wait about a full year. Because supposly now and days is safe to wait 9 months but for every 1 month you wait, adds 50% of reducing reinjuring your acl. Based on the studies if you wait a full year your chances of re tearing your acl is reduced to less than 10 percent. Another study says if you RTS before 6 months your chances of re injuring are 33% to even 50%. I think its safe to say that the longer you wait the better. Also alot has to do with how strong you physically. Sadly i will wait a year but ill say after 8 months i will start trainning with my friends again.
Hello all! I had my ACL and meniscus reconstruction 28 days ago, and so far I am able to walk without crutches and walk easily up and down stairs! MY physio has helped a lot as I have physio 3 hours each day and I always ice a lot. If you believe in your self and work hard to recover, anything is possible. Remember, after 28 days I am able to walk up stairs without crutches and even swim and go to the beach smoothly, all the best to all!
I didn’t have surgery yet because my growth plate haven’t closed yet so im waiting
3 weeks post surgery today. Hamstring graft and meniscus trim because it wasn’t repairable. I am able to walk and climb stairs and have started box squats to stop my leg blowing away in the wind. I have full extension and can just about manage hyperextension (slight pain) with I’d say 120-130 degree flexion.
Nerve and calf pain is the worst part for me.
I can already cycle and hope to jog at 3 month mark.
Good luck everyone. Listen to your body and take it easy. Ice should be your best friend ����
My kneecap moves a little bit when I bend the leg. I feel like the knee is moving a muscle and it pops a little bit! I’m in the second week after ACL reconstruction
I had ACL Surgery as well as Meniscus, and I am officially back into full out training for gymnatics exactly one year after my surgery. HOWEVER I was doing A LOT of workouts for the sport at 7-8 months Just not full out
I tore my acl and mcl, combined with severe cartilage damage and a bruised meniscus on December 6, 2015 during a basketball game. Surgery followed on the 23th of december and after 7 months of rehab, I returned to playing high competitive basketball. Scans showed that the knee was indeed healed and my doctor and physical therapist cleared me for playing again. But after 3 weeks into pre-season, I re-injured that same knee again, tearing my acl and meniscus on August 19, 2016, without any symptoms. Fed up about the re-injury, I took some time of and eventually had a second acl reconstruction on February 1th. Now, after 7,5 months, I’m still rehabbing, struggling greatly against swelling but even more, struggling mentally. Scans already shown everything is structurally fine, even though I still experience pain caused by swelling. Are there any kind of tricks or tips you can teach to stimulate the rehab proces mentally?
It’s been a little over 6 months since my acl recon surgery. I’m mostly doing strength and agility exercises at the gym. I’ve also been playing light pick-up basketball for a month now. I can say that I’m about 70% in my recovery. The biggest challenge, i guess, is just getting the strength back in all the muscles around the knee. It’s a slow process that requires so much patience and discipline.
I’m two days post op using the hamstring graft and my leg feels like a ton.
after how much time i will start walking again as my University classes are missing….
I just had an ACL reconstruction with a patellar graft a couple of days ago. I can walk without crutches and with virtually no pain. I’ve been told that cycling and hiking help the recovery process a great deal. Is this true? If yes, by when sshould one consider getting back to this? I like being outdoors and I’d really like to get back to hiking asap. Thank you.
I tore my ACL 4 years ago and when I have the slightest pain in my other knee I, without a doubt, convince myself I’ve torn my other ACL. I have a huge fear of reinjury that has stuck with me for too long.
I ruptured my ACL while dancing in May… I just surgery using patellar tendon on June 11th. Recovery has been going super well physically, but mentally… I don’t know if I can ever do the tricks and jumps like I used to. I’m scared to re-injure or worse, tear my ACL on my good knee.
Thank you for your videos. I’m more open with my PT about my concerns and we are working on a plan to ease my worry. Again, thank you.
When can i go back to sports after my surgery of torn acl and minuscuse the sport i want to get back at are volleyball track cross country this is my first surgery and it happend on my birthday i was turning 13
Hi sir. My both knee acl was reconstruction. First was success but right knee acl was not recover by 2 yes. I can run normally but can not return to sport. Is their any knee brace to return sport or should I left sport. I am 34 yrs old. Please give ur opinion.
I had my acl reconstruction on 9th of jan-19. I am recovering well. I can walk slowly without the help of walker.
Can you please tell me when may I get back to my gym classes??
I’M a taekwondo player I have done my ACL reconstruction surgery on last month when I can return sports with the same level,is this good to return sports