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Muscle strength
Muscles involved will be strengthened dynamically under stresses similar
to those encountered in competition
Using SAID and Overload Principles
Endurance
Muscular and cardiorespirtaory endurance can be enhanced with
functional progressions
Through repetition of of individual activities and their combination into one
general activity
Physical Benefits
Flexibility
Injured area stressed within a controlled range during functional
progression
Improved mobility and flexibility crucial to patient return to
activity
Strength and endurance do not mean much if injured area
cannot move through normal ROM
Muscle relaxation
Functional progression can teach an individual to recognize
muscle tension and eventually control or remove it by relaxing
muscles after exercise
Relieve muscle guarding that may inhibit normal ROM
Physical Benefits
Motor Skills
Coordination, agility and motor skills are complex aspects
of normal function
Needed to transform strength, flexibility and endurance
into full-speed performance
Repetition and practice are are important to learning
motor skills
Rehabilitation exercises must stress neuromuscular
coordination and agility to increase performance and
decrease chance of reinjury
Develop automatic reactions needed during activity
Psychological Benefits
Functional progression can help reduce common
emotions found after injury
Anxiety
Athlete gradually placed into more demanding situations.
Experience success and not be as concerned with failure
Deprivation
Athlete can engage in activity during practice to remain close
in proximity and socially feel little loss in team cohesion
Apprehension
Enable patient to adapt to imposed demands of their sport in
a controlled environment
Restore confidence
Components of a functional
progression
Four principles
Individuality of the patient, sport and the injury
Activities should be positive not negative; no increase in
signs or symptoms
Orderly progressive program
Program should be varied to avoid monotony
Vary exercise techniques
Alter the program at regular intervals
Maintain fitness base
Set achievable goals , reevaluate, and modify regularly
Use clinical, home and on field programs
Use sport specific activities to enhance patients return to activity
Designing a Functional
Progression
No cookbook, be creative and specific to athletes goals
and injury status
Progressions should start early in rehab
Start with low impact and progress to high impact
Assess athlete periodically to determine ability to
progress to next exercise
Achieving a certain skill level occurs when a the skill
can be completed at functional speed with high
repetition without increase in pain, swelling or a
decrease in ROM
Functional Testing
Patient performs certain tasks appropriate to their stage in
rehab
Isolate specific deficits
Sprint
Straight ahead varying intensities
Add acceleration/deceleration drills
Box Runs
Carioca
Hopping:
Double Leg to Single Leg to Alternate
Jumping:
Plyometrics
Progress intensities
Sport specific