Presentation description
Calf injuries can keep recurring during rehabilitation even when an athlete’s strength and capacity look good. Brady Green presents a case where rehab failed three times, using a stepwise framework that accounts for the injury, the athlete and the demands of the sport. He shows how strength testing, stretch-shortening cycle diagnostics and a sequenced, mixed loading programme guided a successful return to play from soleus and gastrocnemius injuries.
Learning objectives
- Understand how injury location, connective tissue involvement and athlete-specific risk factors shape prognosis and recurrence risk after soleus and gastrocnemius injuries.
- Identify leftover impairments that peak strength measures can miss, using strength testing and stretch-shortening cycle diagnostics.
- Apply a sequenced, mixed loading approach and a criteria-led return to run to guide the return-to-play pathway
About the presenter
Dr Green is a physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer within The University of Notre Dame Australia and La Trobe University (Adjunct). He is an internationally-renowned calf injury expert. After completing his award-winning PhD in 2021, Dr Green is embedded as a key stakeholder in the assessment, management and prevention of calf muscle strain injuries. He was recently invited to lead the Calf Pain chapter in the upcoming Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine – an international bestseller. Dr Green previously worked in elite Australian Football (Essendon FC), and combines his advanced practical experiences to strengthen his research and consulting. Professional teams and peak sporting organisations have requested Dr Green’s expert consultation on muscle injury prevention.
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