2025 – Page 5 – ACL Support

May 23, 2025

Return to Sport Post ACL Injury: General Issues

Guidelines and testing for safe return to sports and activities. Beyond Time-Based Criteria Modern return-to-sport guidelines have moved away from strictly time-based criteria toward a comprehensive assessment approach. Most experts now recommend that athletes: Strength and Symmetry Testing Objective measurements help assess readiness: Functional Testing Performance-based tests evaluate movement quality and function: Psychological Readiness Mental factors are increasingly recognized as […]

ACL Rehabilitation 0 2 min read

June 2, 2025

Selected Activity Risks after ACL Damage

After an ACL injury, (and perhaps other associated knee damage), there are some activities that may present more risk for further damage. This is the case pre-surgery and after surgery to varying degrees. There are just some things that should be either avoided altogether or handled with a great deal more care. Post surgery, over time through rehab, people often […]

Post Injury - Pre-Surgery 0 6 min read

May 23, 2025

ACL Graft Strength

ACL Graft Strength: What Patients Need to Know About Healing and Recovery Timing Recovering from ACL reconstruction involves more than just getting stronger and more mobile. It means respecting the timeline your body needs to biologically rebuild the graft. While pain may subside and movement may return within weeks, the new graft goes through a long, complex healing process that […]

About ACL Injuries 0 3 min read

May 31, 2025

ACL Delayed Recovery Issues

We’re All Different. You’ll probably see that mentioned repeatedly in just about any forum you look for ACL support among others. For starters, people have very different injury types form different mechanisms. Yes, there’s some general sameness; the ACL itself, usually some kind of ancillary structure damage, (meniscus, etc.), but even then, to varying degrees. Then we’re of different ages, […]

ACL Rehabilitation 0 8 min read

April 9, 2025

ACL Injury Recovery – Mental & Emotional Issues

It’s challenging to even know where to start here. There are so many aspects to this. Just dealing with the pain alone, fear of loss of function, the challenges of the initial injury and certainly of initial recovery from surgery… perhaps some of the worst aspects are possibly loss of identity for those of us who deeply associate ourselves with […]

Post Injury - Pre-Surgery 0 14 min read

June 12, 2025

Are Athletes Breaking More as Performance Exceeds Our Biomechanics?

Just Some of the Benefits of Sports The pursuit of peak human performance may be reaching a dangerous inflection point where our bodies can’t keep up with our ambitions, possibly for both pros and recreational athletes. The benefits of sports participation are many. We have the physical; cardio, strength, endurance, flexibility, and weight management. Then there’s emotional aspects from stress […]

About ACL Injuries 0 8 min read

June 16, 2025

The Constipation Thing

Let’s Talk Post Op Poop Does this topic really deserve it’s own page? Maybe not. But let’s just consider two realities. Why Constipation Post Op? It happens to almost everyone. Here’s why: It’s not unusual to go three, four, even five or more days without a bowel movement post-surgery. For many, it’s not just uncomfortable, it becomes a mounting (pun […]

Post ACL Surgery 0 3 min read

Year: 2025