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Phase 5: Return-‐to-‐Sport (20-‐24+ weeks)
Goals Exercise Suggestions Criteria for Progression
• 85% contralateral
strength
• 85% contralateral on
hop tests
• Sport-‐specific training
without pain,
swelling, or difficulty
• Aggressive strengthening:
! Squats, lunges, plyometrics
• Sport-‐specific activities:
! Interval training programs, sprinting,
change of direction, running patterns in
football, pivot and drive in basketball,
kicking in soccer, spiking in volleyball,
skill/biomechanical analysis with coaches
and sports medicine team
• Instrumented testing systems
• Return-‐to-‐Sport evaluation recommendations:
! Hop tests (see above), vertical jump,
deceleration shuttle
• Return-‐to-‐Sport Criteria:
! No functional
complaints
! Confidence when
running, cutting,
jumping at full speed
! 85% contralateral
values on hop tests
! IKDC Question #10 ≥9
(see above)
Please send progress notes. Thank you.
Mia S. Hagen, M.D.
3800 Montlake Blvd NE
Box 354060
Seattle, WA 98195-‐4060
Phone: 206-‐598-‐3294 opt 8 | Fax: 206-‐598-‐3140
smia@uw.edu
University of Washington Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
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