ACL Rehab for Athletes
Puckett PT is proud to be the only sports clinic in San Antonio that offers an all inclusive ACL rehab package that guarantees a return to sport. This package bridges the wide gap from surgery to return to play. You can get 'acl rehab' anywhere, but this is the most comprehensive and all inclusive option available to San Antonio athletes. This package includes as many weeks as needed to get you back to sport!
Most clinics can handle to first few months of rehab but then you're left to yourself to figure out the rest. ACL rehab for return to sports is very specialized and should be treated as such. If you want to return to your sport and reduce the risk of re-injury, then you need the best sports PT. Most physical therapists are generalists, spending most of their day treating elderly patients and a few athletes with various problems. ACL rehab takes time, expertise, the proper facility and equipment and a strong understanding of all the nuances needed for return to play.
Let's schedule a free consult to see if Puckett PT is the right home for your ACL rehab!
Are you at risk for an ACL injury? ACL injuries can be quite devastating causing pain and hardship. Tearing your ACL can cost you the whole season, and maybe some of next season. The financial burden can be quite large with the average cost of ACL injury being a little more than $13,000 in the United States. Not to mention there is physical and emotional pain. Some athletes may go through depression, loss of identity, and feel like they are missing out. There is undoubtedly a great cost to tearing your ACL.
There are approximately 200,000 ACL injuries every year in the United States. Approximately 70% of those are non-contact injuries meaning that the injury occured without any external traumatic force. These non-contact injuries can occur from a jump, landing from a jump, planting, twisting, cutting, hopping, or falling. Research shows that a lot of these injuries can be avoided. But how? By performing an ACL prevention program! Research shows that performing an ACL prevention program can reduce your risk of ACL injury by 50% overall and up to 67% in female athletes! That means we could potentially reduce the number of ACL injuries by 70,000 to 93,000 per year!!! Wow.
Now that we have established that ACL prevention programs are necessary and that they work, what is an ACL prevention program? An ACL prevention program will consist of patient education, flexibility/mobility training, balance training, proprioceptive training, dynamic stability training, jump training, agility training and strength training. There is a lot that goes in to a good ACL prevention program. It takes a professional to design and implement a good ACL prevention program.