22 May Split Stance Soleus Raise
HOW: Start in a split stance position with one foot forward and the other foot behind you with your toes pushing into the ground. Load most of your weight into the front leg. From this position, lift your heels up. Make sure to lift...
22 May Split Stance Medball Rotation – Feed In
HOW: Start by standing next to a wall. Lunge forward with the leg furthest from the wall bending at the knee but keeping the knee over your toes. The other leg is behind you with your knee bent and your toes pushing into the...
22 May Split Stance Medball Rotation – Feed Out
HOW: Start by standing next to a wall. Lunge forward with the leg closest to the wall bending at the knee but keeping the knee over your toes. The other leg is behind you with your knee bent and your toes pushing into the...
22 May Squat – TKE
HOW: Get set-up standing with a band around and above the knee with the band anchored in front of you. To perform the exercise, put tension on the band so that it wants to pull your knee forward. Put your feet apart shoulder width...
22 May Split Stance Lunge – TKE
HOW: Get set-up standing with a band around and above the knee with the band anchored in front of you. To perform the exercise, put tension on the band so that it wants to pull your knee forward. Put your foot with the band...
22 May Single Leg Heel Raise – TKE
HOW: Get set-up standing with a band around and above the knee with the band anchored in front of you. To perform the exercise, stand away from the anchor so that there is tension on the band so that it wants to pull your...
22 May Double Leg Heel Raise – TKE
HOW: Get set-up standing with a band around and above the knee with the band anchored in front of you. To perform the exercise, stand away from the anchor so that there is tension on the band so that it wants to pull your...
20 May Forward Walking – Hurdle, Involved Leg
HOW:Using cones, lines, hurdles, or any other object, slowly step over each object with your involved leg. Lift your ankle up to help you clear the object. FEEL: You may feel tightness in your knee as you do this, this is normal. COMPENSATION: Do not...
20 May Backward Walking – Hurdle, Uninvolved Leg
HOW: Using cones, lines, hurdles, or any other object, slowly step over each object with your uninvolved leg. As you take a step with your involved leg, work on “staying strong” and squeezing your glutes and quadriceps as you make contact with the ground....
19 May Cyclops Lesions
Cyclops lesions can be extremely common after ACL reconstruction, with >25% of knees showing cyclops on MRI at 6 months. The hallmarks signs of a cyclops lesions are pain with extension, and an audible pop or cluck with extension. Typically patients will have normal...
