The Effect of Rehabilitative Exercises in Improving (the range of motion, muscle strength, and the degree of pain) for Football Players After ACL Surgery

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 381 - 388, 25.03.2024

Bashar Hasan Lina Sabah Matty

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.1399146

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to prepare rehabilitative exercises for football players following anterior cruciate ligament surgery and to determine the impact of such exercises on the functional ability of the anterior cruciate ligament (muscle strength, range of motion, and level of pain) in advanced football players following surgery. Method: A sample of (6) injured, from Al-Kut club, (age = 27.33 ± 1.98 years, height = 174.7 ± 2.99 cm, mass 60.6 0.68 kg) participated in the study. The participants in the experimental group (n=6) completed pre-tests and post-tests. Results: The results of the experimental sample show that there was a significant improvement in the mean scores for Muscular strength on the post-test compared to the pre-test. The mean score for muscular strength increased from 18.50 to 33.33, p<0.001), the mean score for the range of motion increased (extension) from 163.50 to 177.33, (flexion) 68.83 to 21, p<0.001), and the mean score for pain decreased from 7.125 to 1.12, p<0.001). conclusion: following surgery, rehabilitation exercises improve the strength of the muscles that operate on the knee joint, increase the range of motion of the knee joint, and decrease pain degree.

Keywords

Rehabilitative exercises, Football players, ACL surgery

Ethical Statement

This work is in compliance with ethical, legal, and scientific rules and we have not been published before and are not in the evaluation stage to be published elsewhere during the application.

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