Blood Flow Restriction Training in Rehabilitation
High-quality rehabilitation should commence immediately after an injury. Everyone with an acute injury (e.g. ACL rupture) experiences early loss in muscle mass and muscle strength. Overuse injuries also require adequate load management to reduce pain and increase load.
ACL injury in males vs females
It is well known that females are much more susceptible to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury than males, in fact, across the first two seasons of the women’s Australian Football League (AFLW) the rates were 6.2 and 9.2 times higher than the men’s league (AFLM) in the same years.