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Physical preparation and return to sport of the football player with a tibia-fibula fracture: applying the 'control-chaos continuum'
- Source :
- BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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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.
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20557647
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ open sportexercise medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1fdbe0e649278fb5d686231017e51eb