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Equipment considerations that can help you activate your quadriceps muscle, improving your pre-operative condition and aiding your post-operative recovery.
The special function of the ACL As well as providing a restraint to abnormal knee movement, the ACL gives important information to the muscles involved in the reflex control of knee movements. Nerve fibres give the knee a sense of position and movement and this sensory awareness is known as proprioception. It is a normal…
Evidence base for Rehabilitation Techniques for cartilage repair have been developed over the last 15 to 20 years but unfortunately there is no detailed scientific basis for rehabilitation programmes. Most of what is followed at the moment is based on a combination of basic science work combined with expert opinions and published techniques with rehabilitation…
Exercises need to be done 4 – 5 times per day: little and often is better than an extensive overload period. Pain, heat and increasing swelling in the knee are potentially bad: Any of these symptoms can mean that exercises are being overdone. This is unlikely to indicate a serious problem, but these symptoms should…
