Structured Rehabilitation Considerations to Improve Outcomes After Complex Athletic Knee Injury
摘要
Given that patient outcomes following an isolated anterior cruciate ligament rupture, surgery, and rehabilitation are less than ideal, achieving effective return to sport performance after a multiple ligament knee injury (MLKI) is sustained is a daunting task. This chapter describes existing MLKI epidemiology, classification, and patient outcome information for the purpose of improving outcome expectations among this highly motivated patient group. Issues related to patient-reported outcome measurements, return to sport decision-making, and deficiencies in current medical literature are synthesized for the purpose of improving rehabilitation planning to mitigate functional inhibition, integrate external attentional focus functional tasks, and develop a more comprehensive whole body approach to functional recovery with consideration for the omnipresent influences of fascial structures throughout the body.