Essential Considerations in Rehabilitation

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Essential Considerations in Rehabilitation

• Chapter 1

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Primary goal of sports medicine

• Create a safe playing environment
• Injuries will occur (nature of sport)
• Few injuries are life-threatening
• ATC is responsible for
• Design, implementation, and supervision of
  program
• Must have complete understanding of the injury

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The rehabilitation team
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Philosophy of rehabilitation

• Aggressive approach
• Understanding healing
• Base program alterations
• Cannot speed up healing
• Use SAID principle for exercise intensity
• Signs that its too intense?
• Pathomechanics
• Identify and correct

• Kinematic Chain
• Integrated functional
• Psychological aspects
• Deal with injury
• Performance enhancement
• Tools
• Cookbook approach?
• Modalities
• Medications

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The 10 Commandments

• Structural integrity
• Pain reduction
• ROM and flexibility
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Speed
• Power
• Coordination and proprioception
• Agility
• Cardiovascular endurance

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Controlling pain and swelling

• Fluid accumulation causes pain and neuromuscular
  inhibition and slows healing
• Use RICES
• Rest
• Ice
• Compression
• Elevation
• Support

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Overview of other commandments

• Correct ROM losses
• Determine cause
• Neuromuscular control
• Repetition of patterned movements
• Balance coordination
• Integration of sensory info

• Strength endurance
• Isometrics
• PREs
• Isokinetics
• Core stabilization
• Kinetic chain
• Power
• Plyometrics
• CV endurance

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End of the road

• Functional progression
• Component skills
• Functional testing
• Assess performance and readiness to return to
  play
• Recovery criteria
• Physical and mental readiness