Mick Hughes:
Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
M. Sports Physio, B. Physio, B.Ex. Sci.

Running is a major milestone to achieve for patients following ACL surgery - yet there's still no perfect answer as to "when"....

It's widely accepted now that passing criteria before returning to sport following ACLR is best practice and is associated with better...

We often talk about setting benchmarks for return to running and return to sport for the ACLR athlete; but it can be a bit more...

It's important that we are having honest discussions with our ACLR patients about what the chances are of them returning to pre-injury...

A great research paper by Hughes and his colleagues. This was a study that directly compared heavy load resistance training with BFR...

Here is a really interesting paper with some surprising findings. 192 young , highly active ACLR athletes (ave age 21yrs, Tegner Activity...

There's often a belief that the knee has to be rested following ACL injury. However there's strong evidence that supports high load...

Once the knee has settled following ACL injury, consistent evidence that we're seeing in the ACL literature from the Delaware-Oslo ACL...

A great study here by Kasmi et al (2021) looking at the benefits of plyometrics and eccentric exercises in female ACLR athletes. After 14...

A battery of 4 single-leg hop tests are commonly used to evaluate readiness to return to training and sport in ACL injured athletes....