All rehab should be on-field rehab: Testing the On FI.R.E. framework

On-field rehabilitation is the phase between physical therapy, gym rehabilitation, and an injured player’s return to team training. After the player returns to his own baseline pre-injury levels — or normative values, if individual data is not available — the on-field rehabilitation typically focuses on the final phase of injury recovery: the overlap period between rehabilitation and return to sport. Despite many valuable articles about on-field rehabilitation [1-3], we observed a gap in the research: a randomized control trial. We, therefore, set out to conduct a single blind, prospective, ra...