One of the most challenging tasks for a sports medicine clinician is rehabilitating an injured athlete for a successful return to competition. Effective Functional Progressions in Sport Rehabilitation provides clinicians with the strategies and tools they need to prepare their clients for the physical demands required by their sport.
This complete reference helps clinicians understand the important concepts of functional progressions and equips them to develop rehabilitation programs specific to the needs of their clients. The authors break down the text into three regional areas—upper extremities, lower extremities, and trunk—before delving into the specific anatomical and biomechanical differences within each area. They also present the neuromuscular basis for the specific approaches to each region and provide exercises in functional progressions that simulate the activity the athlete needs to perform to be effective in his or her sport again.
Part I. Components of Functional Progressions
Chapter 1. Introduction to Functional Progression
Chapter 2. Developing Successful Functional Progression Programs
Part II. Regional Functional Progressions
Chapter 3. Upper Extremity
Chapter 4. Lower Extremity
Chapter 5. Trunk
Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT, CSCS, is clinic director for Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the national director for Clinical Research Physiotherapy Associates. He has been a physical therapist for more than 35 years, specializing in orthopedic and sports physical therapy. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Mark S. De Carlo, PT, MHA, SCS, ATC, is vice president of clinical services for the Methodist Sport Medicine/The Orthopaedic Specialists in Indianapolis. He has more than 23 years of clinical experience with high school, college, and professional athletes and has more than 40 published articles and book chapters to his credit. A certified athletic trainer and board-certified sports clinical specialists, De Carlo is president of the Sports Physical Therapy Section for the APTA and current board member of the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy.
Carl DeRosa, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is a professor of physical therapy at Northern Arizona University and co-owner of DeRosa Physical Therapy in Flagstaff, Arizona. Dr. DeRosa completed his physical therapy education at the Mayo Clinic and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in human anatomy. His scholarly interests over the past 25 years have been focused on the anatomy and mechanics of the human spine and shoulder girdle with particular emphasis on their relationship to orthopedics, sport, and rehabilitation sciences.