Posts Tagged ‘rehab’
5 Tenets of Sports Injury Rehabilitation
Movement is the foundation of sports injury rehabilitation Dr Grace Golden gave an insightful presentation on returning to sporting activity at GAIN 2018. I liked her systematic approach which was well illustrated with video examples. She also had a large amount of creativity and fun involved in her rehabilitation sessions. Coaching the injured athlete Grace…
Read MoreReconditioning athletes: Bill Knowles seminar
“An exercise is something you do a movement is something you feel.” Was the title of Bill Knowles’ seminar on rehabilitating (reconditioning in his terms) athletes from sports injuries. The question he asks himself is “what’s in the best interest of the athlete?” This often means pulling the athlete out of the injured body and…
Read MorePlanned Performance Training: Bill Knowles
Envelope of healing
The upper limit of the envelope is for the elite athlete, but too much work leads to inflammation. Too little work is safer, but it is not causing enough adaptability.
There are no time frames for the rehab procedures, instead criteria based progressions are needed