Ep 196: Taking care of strength business in ACL rehabilitation, with Olivia Barbosa
Muscle strength is a core focus of many sports injury rehabilitation programmes, and often a prominent discharge criterion. Today's guest has an important message about the uninjured limb in ACL re...
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Show Notes
Muscle strength is a core focus of many sports injury rehabilitation programmes, and often a prominent discharge criterion. Today's guest has an important message about the uninjured limb in ACL rehabilitation: "beware the moving target of strength".
Olivia Barbosa is a sports physiotherapist with over a decade of experience in soccer and rugby. She currently works at the Aspetar Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital where she contributes to the concussion and the ACL clinical teams, and does research focused on muscle activation and strength recovery in ACL rehabilitation.
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RESOURCES
More on changes in quadriceps and hamstrings muscle strength over rehabilitation: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2023.11961
Aspetar ACL rehabilitation clinical practice guideline: https://www.aspetar.com/en/professionals/aspetar-clinical-guidelines/recommendations-on-rehabilitation-after-aclr