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Practical, evidence based articles on ACL, knee, shoulder, elbow and baseball rehab. Written for PTs, ATs and physicians.

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Should You Squat Through Patellofemoral Pain?
Knee

Should You Squat Through Patellofemoral Pain?

Should you stop squatting with patellofemoral pain? Usually not. How to modify squats with range, load and tempo, a simple pain rule, and a squat progression.

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ACL Anatomy: 5 Things Rehab Clinicians Should Know
ACL

ACL Anatomy: 5 Things Rehab Clinicians Should Know

What the research says about ACL anatomy: its size and shape, the two bundles, the flat ribbon, nerves and blood supply, and why it matters for ACL rehab.

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How to Progressively Load the Rotator Cuff
Rotator Cuff

How to Progressively Load the Rotator Cuff

The rotator cuff is small, but it is not weak. How we progress rotator cuff strengthening with load, pauses, volume and position, from the Ask Mike Reinold Podcast.

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ACL Reconstruction With an LET: What Changes in Rehab?
ACL

ACL Reconstruction With an LET: What Changes in Rehab?

More ACL patients are getting a lateral extra-articular tenodesis (LET), even with patellar and quad tendon grafts. What the research says and what changes in rehab.

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4 Interval Throwing Programs: Matching the Program to the Injury
Shoulder

4 Interval Throwing Programs: Matching the Program to the Injury

Our new IJSPT paper gives you four interval throwing programs, 6 weeks to 7 months, built on workload data. Here is how I match each one to the injury.

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What Actually Changes After ACL Surgery
ACL

What Actually Changes After ACL Surgery

A study tracked 30 athletes at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after ACL reconstruction. Here is what changed, and why symmetry alone does not mean ready.

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Why Your Quad Tendon ACL Patient’s Quad Is Lagging
ACL

Why Your Quad Tendon ACL Patient’s Quad Is Lagging

Quad tendon ACL grafts are on the rise. Here is why the quad lags after a QT graft and the rehab change most clinicians are missing.

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Meniscus Repair Rehab: What Does the Evidence Actually Say?
Meniscus

Meniscus Repair Rehab: What Does the Evidence Actually Say?

Root, peripheral or complex, meniscus repairs are not all the same. What the research says on weight bearing, ROM and rehab for each repair type.

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Simplifying ACL Rehab
ACL

Simplifying ACL Rehab

ACL return to play testing keeps getting more complicated. A simple, practical approach to ACL rehab and testing that works in a normal outpatient clinic.

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Diagnosed with an elbow UCL Tear- Reconstruction or Internal Brace surgery?
Elbow

Diagnosed with an elbow UCL Tear- Reconstruction or Internal Brace surgery?

Diagnosed with a UCL tear? A plain English look at Tommy John reconstruction vs the internal brace, return to play times, and what the evidence says.

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Infraspinatus atrophy in a baseball pitcher with a UCL sprain
Elbow

Infraspinatus atrophy in a baseball pitcher with a UCL sprain

This post discusses the evaluation and treatment of a college baseball pitcher with a finding of infraspinatus atrophy due to a spinoglenoid notch cyst.

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ACL tears and bone bruises
ACL

ACL tears and bone bruises

Bone bruises often occur after an ACL tear. This post discusses how bone bruises may affect the rehab progression and long term success of a patient.

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