Mike Reinold

While everyone wants to talk about advanced exercises and return to sport, it is probably infinitely more important to assure that the early phases of rehabilitation go well to avoid complications and allow more advanced drills down the road.

This week’s Stuff You Should Read comes from Eric Cressey and Sports Medicine Research.

Biomechanical implications of squat variations performed using the TRX Suspension System.

Assessing and treating loss of knee extension range of motion is an important component of rehabilitation following any knee surgery.

Loss of knee extension has a dramatic impact on gait, muscle activity, and normal tibiofemoral and patellofemoral arthrokinematics. Recent research shows loss of extension also leads to the development of early osteoarthritis.

Deficits with ankle dorsiflexion mobility can have a dramatic impact on functional movements such as deep squatting, lunging, and the lateral step down.  If you are familiar with the functional movement screen, you know that this is taken into consideration when a person does not grade out with a perfect score on many of the [...]

One of the most common postoperative complications following ACL reconstruction is loss of range of motion, particularly loss of knee extension.  Recent studies have shown that up to 25% of all ACL reconstructions will have a loss of knee extension range of motion postoperatively.  That seems like a pretty significant amount of people to me. [...]

Does the Graft Source Really Matter in Outcomes After ACL Reconstruction?  That seems to be a popular topic of late, with two new research articles in the last several months addressing this topic (one from AJSM and another from Sports Health).  These two particular articles performed systematic reviews of allograft versus autograft tissue during anterior [...]