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Rehabilitation Surgical ACL Tear in Female Athletes
Female athletes are at a greater risk of having an anterior cruciate ligament, also known as ACL tear. There are multiple reasons as to why athletes receive this injury such as changing the direction, twisting or pivoting of the knee. Athletes will go through a rehabilitation program either without surgery or post-surgery. Surgery would be the best method to decrease the pain but also to reform and strengthen a new ligament in the knee. After post-surgery, a patient should rest for no more than two weeks. It is required, for most athletes, to attend a rehabilitation program. Female athletes will need rehab to improve and strengthen their knee. This way they can rebuild their strength and return to the sport they were playing before the injury. A program will positively improve the range of motion and strength in the knee. For 4 months, the program is intended to target abrupt knee motion and the athlete should be able to complete an interruption of strenuous activities and definite exercises. This will all take place right after the surgery. Approximately two years is the amount of time a female athlete will have full range of motion in the knee and will be able to have no problems at all.

Range of Motion Stretches
After reconstruction of the knee, a patient will be tested on their range of motion. These activities include flexion and hyperextension of the knee. Exercises consist of towel to provide support for the leg when performing range of motion. Hopefully, the athlete will gain most of their range of motion, with these activities, but they can lose these abilities when starting a rehabilitation program. There are numerous types of exercises that can be performed by the female athlete themselves or with the help of a physical therapist. To improve the range of motion in the knee after post-surgery, there is a variety of rehabilitation programs or risk factors to attend to the problem of an ACL injury. ACL rehabilitation programs can include a fast-track rehabilitation program. This program challenges an athlete’s knee at a quicker pace for athletes that play a sport in a faster and more complicated setting. The second program is somewhat less challenging and consists of patients, with an ACL injury, that are less active in sports. Most female athletes will continue with the faster pace rehabilitation program after post-surgery.

Strenuous Exercises
Surgery provides the best results for athletes to recover to their normal state. A rehabilitation program usually would progress, at a slower pace, but nowadays strengthening the knee at a faster pace can improve the athlete’s knee after eight weeks. The rehabilitation program can also comprise of aggressive motions, weight bearing exercises, and a speedy recovery for athletes to return to their sport. After ACL reconstruction, rehabilitation is broken up into two phases: early phase and late phase. Early phase is performed directly after reconstruction and late phase progresses slowly. With both phases, the end result gets the athlete to play the sport they’ve been playing before the injury. The phases contain certain exercises such as balancing, plyometric, joint stability, agility, and the sport pertaining to what occurred the injury. These exercises will expectantly decrease the pain but also have no increase of pain on the knee. The athlete will perform a series of tasks that they would normally do in their sport or in any kind of daily exercise. Once able to complete most of those exercises, the athlete will be able to reappear to their sport.