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...
13 May Staggered Box Squat
HOW: Stagger your feet by placing one foot slightly forward, making sure that your feet are about shoulder width apart. Place the leg you want to work more in the back. Then, complete a box squat by bending at your hips and knees like...
09 May Supine Passive Knee Extension PROM
HOW: While laying on your back, straighten your leg out and place your heel on an elevated surface with your toe pointed up. Typically lying back on your couch with your foot on the arm rest will suffice. Relax your leg muscles and let...
09 May Supine Passive Knee Extension PROM With Overpressure – Ankle Weight
HOW: While laying on your back, straighten your leg out and place your heel on an elevated surface. Typically lying back on your coach with your foot on the arm rest will suffice. Place the weighted object over your knee and let your leg...
09 May Prone Knee Extension PROM Hang
HOW: Laying on a table or elevated surface, make sure your knees are slightly hanging over the edge. Your knee cap should be just over the edge, comfortably. Let gravity pull your lower leg down and extend your knee. Hold that stretch as long...
09 May Seated Overpressure Terminal Knee Extension – Kettlebell
HOW: While seated on an elevated surface, place your heel on a step. Attach a super band to a kettlebell(instructions in the video) and place your leg through the band. Make sure to place one loop below the kneecap and the other above. With...
08 May Posterior Lunge To Single Leg Balance
HOW: Step back with one leg. Keeping your weight on your front leg, drive into the ground and push yourself back up into a single leg balance position. FEEL: Feel your glutes and your quads of your front leg working. COMPENSATION: Don’t push with...
08 May Curtsey Lunge To Single Leg Balance
HOW: Step backwards and out to the side like you were to perform a curtsey. Keep your weight on your front leg. Drive up and come to standing on one leg on the way back. FEEL: You should feel a good glute stretch and...