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You have suffered a total or partial injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) , this ligament takes an important part of the rotational stability of your knee.
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The question of the operation will certainly arise and will depend on your motivations and needs .
A clear discussion with your orthopedic surgeon will give you the guidelines of the ins and outs of your decision.
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However, special rehabilitation care will often be necessary to help you regain confidence in your knee.
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Also, we know that preparation before the operation improves the success of postoperative rehabilitation; it will be need to propose a preoperative rehabilitation.
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The knee acts as an intermediate joint in a linking system of interdependent segments; thus an ACL injury is a lesion that affects only one leg but the problem is in both.
(BENJAMINSE 2018).
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Injury to the ACL can be considered a neurophysiological dysfunction and not just a musculoskeletal injury. (KAPRELI 2009)
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The purpose of the sports rehabilitation process is to be able to bring the patient to manage rapid movements and dynamis activities which are more problematic; the neuro-muscular system which analyzes the movements must not find itself in a situation of black out and under optimal.
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Rehabilitation serves to give the brain the capacity to create a program in order to modify the neuromuscular system and make it more efficient.
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The sports therapist must guide the patient to find efficient movement solutions by stimulating an adapted motor learning process of the central nervous system (DIGENEN 2019).
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Motor learning is a process followed by an individual during which he acquires new motor skills accompanied by an almost permanent change in performance in the function of training or experience (GOKELER 2019).
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The quality of rehabilitation is to find an " optimal challenge point" between a simple task which will give a good performance and a complex task which leads the patient into error , but also learning .
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ESSENTIAL POINTS OF ACL REHABILITATION:
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Motivation, coaching, patient adherence
Set goals
Plan and monitor follow-up
Repetition - Variation
Progression
Challenge - Challenging - Fun