In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Matt McEwan <[log in to unmask]> writes
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>I don't know about American or South African Physios Dr Siff, but here in
>Australia Physios have realised the importance of functional "closed chain"
>rehab for many years. Since a paper was published in 1991 in Sports
>Medicine (Palmitier, Kai-Nau, Scott and Chao. Kinetic Chain Exercise in
>Knee Rehabilitation. Sports Medicine 11 (6): 402-413) most physio's worth
>their salt are instituting closed chain programmes as early as possible ,
>with virtually all knee surgeons eliminating open chain knee extension from
>their post operative protocols. From what I can gather, the preoccupation
>in the States with all things mechanical means that isokinetic machines are
>very popular there. Any Physical therapy/Rehab text book emanating from the
>US invariably has an entire chapter devoted to isokinetics. In practice in
>Sydney, I think there are only a handful of isokinetic machines, usually in
>clinics at Universities where they are used for research purposes.
>In summary you have hit the nail on the head, but in my experience most of
>my colleagues have been on side with your comments for some time
>
>regards
>
>Matt McEwan
>B App Sc (Physio)
>M App Sc (Sports Physio)
>Parkside Sports Physiotherapy
>Sydney, Australia
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Dear Matt
have you got any decent recent refs on ACL rehab protocols that you
might forward?
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john spencer
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