CORE Physical Therapy In Omaha Explains…

By Dr. Mark Rathjen PT DPT CSCS

CORE Physical Therapy Co-owner

17660 Wright Street Suites 9/10

Omaha NE

At CORE Physical Therapy, we specialize in athletes. Especially scary is the dreaded Achilles tendon rupture. Overall, if you choose the right place to do your physical therapy and rehabilitation for sports performance, full recovery is very likely and efficient process.

 

Over the years, we have found that early weight-bearing range of motion and isometric strengthening is vital for a full return and recovery in the final preparatory phase is for return to sports after Achilles tendon rupture repair surgery. Furthermore, only trust your Achilles tendon rehabilitation with a sports performance specialist. In the last decade, we have seen dozens of Achilles tendon tendon rupture repair surgeries and rehabilitation and with fantastic results in a full return to sports better than before.

If you do not, however, get a full recovery chances are that you will have another injury subsequent to the initial period and increasing the likelihood of a chance of rupturing the contralateral Achilles tendon as well through compensation.

The keys to a full recovery are simple. The progression is much more difficult and complicated. We start with early weight-bearing and range of motion in a semi-weight-bearing position. This will allow better overall isometric strengthening and proprioceptive building before actual weight bearing begins. Once weight-bearing is tolerated in an appropriate post-op timeframe, we can do a full gait training analysis and get full body mechanics and gait training up to normal capacity. Once four and normalized mechanics are restored to the walking fast walk in gate program. We continue the strengthening process to progress to running and sprinting and jumping and cutting. We do so in a very gradual way to make sure that we never go backwards in recovery and only go forward progress and just fast enough that we never have a setback. Experience, athletes age, are the risk factors, response sport to return to, and many other factors play into how fast how fast we recover in half as we increase the parameters of the recovery process. Each patient is very unique in the structured rehabilitation protocol at a time in the dynamic situation that continues to progress and change throughout the system of recovery.