Designing an innovative rehabilitation program for partial cruciate ligament and meniscus tears and developing some physical variables for advanced basketball players

Abstract

The research problem lies in the lack of integrated rehabilitation programs that address ACL injuries. Despite significant progress in ACL surgery and rehabilitation, the vast majority of traditional rehabilitation programs still suffer from fundamental limitations, creating a gap between “medical recovery” and “functional sports readiness.” Traditional programs also rely on limited measures such as range of motion and maximal strength measurement, ignoring important variables such as erroneous movement patterns. They also lack an assessment of player performance in a simulated game environment that includes elements of decision-making and stress. As a result, programs are often stereotypical and do not take into account daily variations in a player’s response to training, which may lead to overtraining or failure to achieve optimal stimulation. The research aims to design an innovative rehabilitation program for partial ruptures of the ACL and meniscus, develop some physical variables for advanced basketball players, and identify the most important physical variables for injured basketball players. The researchers used the single-group experimental method due to its suitability for the nature of the research. The researchers determined the research population and sample intentionally, which is advanced players with ACL and meniscus injuries in Basra Governorate, and their number is Seven players. The researchers concluded that the innovative rehabilitation program was effective in achieving real and measurable improvements in the physical aspects of basketball players with cruciate ligament and meniscus injuries. The innovative rehabilitation program can be adopted as an advanced model that goes beyond traditional rehabilitation to comprehensive development of athletic performance.