1. Physical preparation and return to sport of the football player with a tibia-fibula fracture: applying the 'control-chaos continuum'
- Author
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Chris Richter, Daniel D. Cohen, Matt Taberner, Nicol van Dyk, Carl Howarth, Tom Allen, and Simon Scott
- Subjects
Medicine (General) ,Tibia fibula fracture ,medicine.medical_specialty ,football ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Control (management) ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Football ,League ,bone ,Return to sport ,rehabilitation ,03 medical and health sciences ,R5-920 ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Viewpoint ,medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Technical skills ,Rehabilitation ,030229 sport sciences ,Elite ,Psychology ,human activities ,sporting injuries - Abstract
Contact in elite football can result in severe injury such as traumatic fracture. Limited information exists regarding the rehabilitation and return to sport (RTS) of these injuries especially in elite football. We outline the RTS of an elite English Premier League footballer following a tibia-fibula fracture including gym-based physical preparation and the use of ‘control-chaos continuum’ as a framework for on-pitch sport-specific conditioning, development of technical skills while returning the player to pre-injury chronic running loads considering the qualitative nature of movement in competition. Strength and power diagnostics were used to back up clinical reasoning and decision-making throughout rehabilitation and the RTS process. The player returned to full team training after 7.5 months, completed 90 min match-play after 9 months and remains injury-free 11 months post-RTS.
- Published
- 2019