Principles of Rehabilitation

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Principles of Rehabilitation
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Principles of Rehabilitation

• The SAID Principle
• specific adaptation to imposed demands
• specific adaptations requires that specific
  demands be imposed
• Setting Therapeutic Goals
• long - range goals should encompass several
  short-range goals

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Principles of Rehabilitation

• Continual Evaluation
• SAID principle requires both an accurate initial
  evaluation and daily re-evaluation to determine
  the athletes response.
• Functional Progression
• Should progress from the easiest of activities to
  full sports participation (PRE Progressive
  resistive exercise)

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Principles of Rehabilitation

• Early Exercise
• early exercise speeds healing
• lack of exercise may result in permanent
  disability
• caution must be observed
• Rate of Reconditioning
• redevelopment is much quicker than development
• much of the strength lost after injury is the
  result of pain-induced inhibition

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Principles of Rehabilitation

• Pain Free
• all exercises should be pain free
• should have no residual pain
• Biofeedback
• measure athletes performance in some way and
  then tell the athlete what his scores were.
• Athletes Health Comes First
• As long as the athletes health is the uppermost
  concern, rehab. should proceed as quickly as
  possible.