Rehabbing against the clock: Post-ACLR return to play in 7 months

Modern ACL reconstruction (ACLR) techniques and advances in rehabilitation have led to a significant improvement in return to play (RTP) rates in professional footballers and other elite sports, with two thirds or more of players successfully returning to sport [1]. A vast amount of research focuses on post-op rehabilitation. However, there is very little in the literature on the criteria for the return to running post-ACLR, and how practitioners should assess, deliver, and monitor a player's progression from jogging into running [2]. Compounding the problem of this lack of knowledge, most of ...