Rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament surgery 2

Hello. Following the first rehabilitation exercise after anterior cruciate ligament surgery,

let's

learn about the rehabilitation exercise.

1. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rehabilitation SLR Exercise - 4 Direction

If the exercises I told you about in the first episode go well, I'll do a leg-up exercise.
This exercise method is called SLR exercise. If you can lift your legs well, use a sandbag or elastic band on your ankle
Giving resistance helps a lot in maintaining muscle strength.

(1) the direction of the ceiling

● Method

It is an exercise that lifts the operated leg while straightening your legs while lying down looking at the ceiling and maintaining strength in your thighs.



When you can't hear your legs well, it will be a little easier if you bend the other leg of the surgery.

● Precautions

Apply strength to your thighs, check if your knees are straightened, and if you work out with your toes slightly toward your body

And when you lift and lower your leg, you lower it until your heel is about to touch the floor, and then you raise it again, so that your muscles contract

It's effective to make sure it's maintained.

(2) an outward direction

● Method

It is an exercise in which the leg of the operated side is laid on the lower side in the upward direction and then the leg is lifted.
The transformation method is to bend your ankle side with your legs slightly raised and go 45 to 60 degrees forward Bend your ankles to the side and move your legs back. Think of it similar to walking.
This method is an exercise that helps maintain muscle contraction and walking patterns in the middle gluteal muscles.



● Precautions

This exercise contracts the middle gluteus muscles, which are the side muscles of the hips. That's why you have to listen to them in the correct direction.

And when you lift your leg, you have to feel like you're raising it to the back of your body, so it's going to contract exactly towards the middle gluteal muscles, and the direction of your toes is listen while keeping it exactly forward. Don't let your toes turn outward in the direction of your toes
Please be careful.

(3) inward direction

● Method

Lie on your side with the leg of the operation facing down. This is an adductor contraction exercise inside your thighs, which may make your posture a little awkward, but take your time. Lift it upward so that the muscles inside your thighs contract.


(4) backward direction

● Method

It is an exercise that contracts the femoral muscles behind the hip by lifting the operated side and the opposite side of the leg one by one in a prone position.



● Precautions

As you are lying on your stomach, the area where you operated may contact the floor and cause pain. At this time, you can put a thin towel on your thigh to prevent it from touching it.


2. Move your legs inside and outside

● Method

This exercise is to sit against a wall with your legs straightened or with your hands behind you.
Place an object that's a little high on the ankle of the operated leg
It's an exercise that lifts the leg and moves it inward and outward.

The movement of lifting the leg with the thigh contracted and moving it inward and outward helps to improve the coordination of the thighs, hip flexors, and hip muscles.

3. Knee angle after anterior cruciate ligament surgery

It is best to follow your doctor's opinion on this part because the flexion after surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament differs in the timing and extent of starting the angle depending on the propensity of the operating doctors.

If you start flexing your knee early, you usually give it full six weeks, 120 months after surgery, but don't worry if your knee condition is stiff before surgery or if you are late because of the late angle bending.

● How to make an angle

(1) CPM

It's a machine that bends your knees. When you lie down after setting the angle, the CPM will passively bend your knees.

(2) Wall slide

While lying down, place your legs against the wall and slowly bend while assisting with the other leg of the surgery.

(3) Heel slide

While sitting with your legs straightened, hang a towel on the sole of your foot and slowly pull it toward your body to bend your knees.

4. crutches and aids

After surgery for the anterior cruciate ligament, you should wear crutches for 6 weeks and assistive devices for 8 to 12 weeks. The crutches are usually done for 6 weeks, but in the case of assistive devices, the doctor's opinions are different, so please follow his or her instructions. And because the weight support period is fast in the case of the anterior cruciate ligament alone, some people often want to walk easily in the 5th to 6th weeks and try to remove the crutches quickly, but you must wear crutches for 6 weeks to protect the tissues that have been operated.

Exercise hard and recover healthily.


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