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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2021

Recommendations for Hamstring Function Recovery After ACL Reconstruction.

Matthew Buckthorpe, Furio Danelon, Giovanni La Rosa, Gianni Nanni, Matthew Stride, Francesco Della Villa

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Matthew BuckthorpeFaculty of Sport, Health and Applied Science, St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, TW1 4SX, UK. matthew.buckthorpe@stmarys.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-4031
Furio DanelonIsokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Milan, Italy.
Giovanni La RosaIsokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Education and Research Department, Bologna, Italy.
Gianni NanniIsokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Bologna, Italy.
Matthew StrideIsokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, London, UK.
Francesco Della VillaIsokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Education and Research Department, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is important to optimise the functional recovery process to enhance patient outcomes after major injury such as anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). This requires in part more high-quality original research, but also an approach to translate existing research into practice to overcome the research to implementation barriers. This includes research on ACLR athletes, but also research on other pathologies, which with some modification can be valuable to the ACLR patient. One important consideration after ACLR is the recovery of hamstring muscle function, particularly when using ipsilateral hamstring autograft. Deficits in knee flexor function after ACLR are associated with increased risk of knee osteoarthritis, altered gait and sport-type movement quality, and elevated risk of re-injury upon return to sport. After ACLR and the early post-operative period, there are often considerable deficits in hamstring function which need to be overcome as part of the functional recovery process. To achieve this requires consideration of many factors including the types of strength to recover (e.g., maximal and explosive, multiplanar not just uniplanar), specific programming principles (e.g., periodised resistance programme) and exercise selection. There is a need to know how to train the hamstrings, but also apply this to the ACLR athlete. In this paper, the authors discuss the deficits in hamstring function after ACLR, the considerations on how to restore these deficits and align this information to the ACLR functional recovery process, providing recommendation on how to recover hamstring function after ACLR.

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Anterior Cruciate Ligament InjuriesAnterior Cruciate Ligament ReconstructionHamstring MusclesHumansKnee JointMuscle StrengthRecovery of Function

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PMID33332017

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