VIDEOS

In this video I give some pratical advices on ACL injury prevention based on the current evidence.

In this video I give some practical examples of soccer-specific exercises that can be applied in function of lower extremity rehabilitation or injury prevention. The important aspect of these exercises are the fact that they are multidirectional, performed within an open environment and reactive where the athlete constantly has to adapt according to the movements of the other player and/or the changing environment. The cones that you can see in this video are Smartgoals.

I this video I present an overview of examples of exercises during the rehab process, beginning from the ACL injury, until full return to sport in our rehab center Motion to Balance, Genk, Belgium. This patient (non-professional soccer player) ruptured his ACL after a contact trauma during soccer in October 2017. After pre-operative rehab, the patient got an ACL reconstruction in November 2017. The return to match play was in August 2018, 9 months after the ACL reconstruction. More than 10 months, presented in 7.5 minutes!

The step-by-step criteria-based progressions throughout the rehab process are considered within our recently proposed ACL rehab continuum (Dingenen & Gokeler 2017, Sports Medicine) and based on an integration of current scientific insights, combined with an extensive clinical experience in this patient population.

Often we see that patients an ACL injury do not get the most appropriate treatment, with very disappointing results on the short and on the long term. With this video, I hope to inspire others to achieve better results with patients after an ACL injury. We should do better, and we can do better. Go for it!

Please remember that each patient is different, and please don’t copy exercises without a sound clinical reasoning process.

In this video, I summarize the latest research findings that you need to know to improve the outcomes of your patients before and after an ACL reconstruction. First, a theoretical presentation of approximately one hour will be presented, where a critical appraisal of current approaches after ACL reconstruction is followed by recommendations for optimizations within a multifactorial framework. In the second part of this video lecture, I present numerous practical examples of exercise progressions, including jump, strength, power, running, balance, and integrated neurocognitive and visuomotor training. 

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In this video, a demonstration of the medial side triple hop for distance and the medial rotation hop for distance is shown. This video was made based on my publication on multidirectional hop tests in the scientific journal The Knee. The link to the full paper can be found here. I also wrote a research review paper for Physio Network (October 2019 Issue), which can be found here.
In this video, examples are provided on neuromuscular training during ACL rehabilitation. Note that these are only examples. For the why, when, what and how, you need to position these exercises within a clinical reasoning framework. Exercise therapy should always be targeted to the individual presentation! This video is one of the many video incorporated in my online ACL rehab course with Physiotutors (cf teaching).