Infographic. Progressing rehabilitation after injury: consider the ‘control-chaos continuum’

Abstract

Return to sport (RTS) is a dynamic process, during which practitioners must balance the risk that early reintegration to training/match-play increases reinjury risk with the benefit to the team of having key players available.1 Medical and performance staff must work together to formulate a plan considering the individual, the specifics of the injury, tissue healing time and potential risk factors for reinjury.\n\n\n\nA key element of this plan is the management and prescription of external running loads using global positioning systems (GPS) to return players to previous levels of chronic load prior to injury, relatively quickly and safely.2 3 Alongside …