Performance Enhancement Training for the Post-Rehabilitated ACL Reconstructed Knee Athlete
The trauma of ACL tears of the knee has been reported at all levels of athletic competition. These unfortunate knee injuries likely result in the surgical intervention as well as the post-operative rehabilitation of the ACL reconstructed knee. Throughout the knee rehabilitation process as well as the post-rehabilitation training of these ACL athletes, specific training principles, methods, and exercises may be utilized to enhance the athlete's rehabilitation as well as assist the athlete to return to their previously level of athletic performance. This presentation will provide the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Professional with a review of the physical deficits that are commonly present upon completion of the ACL rehabilitation process as well as the methods utilized for the restoration of the optimal physical qualities necessary to eliminate these deficits resulting in the athlete's optimal return to play.
Robert A. Panariello MS, PT, ATC, CSCS is a Founding Partner and Chief Clinical Officer with Professional Physical Therapy presently with 92 facilities in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Metro areas and the Professional Athletic Performance Center, a 20,000 square foot state of the art training facility located in Garden City, New York. He has Bachelor Degrees in Physical Therapy as well as Physical Education/Athletic Training from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. He also holds his Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology from Queens College in Queens, NY.
Rob has more than 35 years of experience in the related fields of Sports Physical Therapy, Athletic Training, and the Performance Enhancement Training of Athletes. His experience includes the study of the Science of Strength and Conditioning of weightlifters and various sport athletes in Bulgaria, the former Soviet Union, and former East Germany. He previously held the positions as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at St. John's University of New York (1986-1995), the World League of American Football NY/NJ Knights (1991), and the WUSA NY POWER Women's Professional Soccer League (2001-2002). He continues to rehabilitate, athletic performance train, as well as serve as a consultant to many NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Collegiate and University teams, coaches, and players.
He has more than 60 peer reviewed Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research, Sports Physical Therapy Research, Strength and Conditioning Journal Articles, book chapter, and book publications. He has also presented his research at the International World Confederation of Physical Therapy in Washington, D.C. He is nationally renowned and lectures throughout the country with regard to the related fields of Sports Physical Therapy and the Performance Enhancement Training of Athletes.
Rob received the 2016 National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Sports Medicine/Rehabilitation Specialist of the Year Award, the 2015 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Sports Physical Therapy Section Lynn Wallace Clinical Educator Award, was elected in 2003 to the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame, and received the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Presidents Award in 1998.
