By Savio L-Y. Woo, Eric K. Wong, J. Mi Lee (auth.), Giancarlo Puddu MD, Prof., Arrigo Giombini MD, Alberto Selvanetti MD (eds.)

Over the previous couple of years, within the box of activities technology and drugs, empirical theories in regards to the remedy and rehabilitation of injured athletes were steadily sup­ ported by means of a swift development of study information and clinical literature. This has allow­ ted a greater wisdom of the therapeutic approach from harm and/or surgical procedure, and a extra acceptable realizing of the biomechanical habit of a number of organic buildings to load and workout. We consider the opinion that improvement and development via a rehabil­ itation application will be in accordance with the kind and severity of the lesion, therapeutic time of the injured constructions, person discomfort tolerance point, attainable followed surgery, and sport-specific biomechanical calls for. at the moment, the main re cent theories on rehabilitation of the injured athlete em­ phasize the recommendations of a multidisciplinary procedure, a useful restoration rather than symptomatic development, and an early mobilization with the implementation of an individualized software treating the full physique kinetic chains. between assorted tools of rehabilitation, the health care professional may still decide on these re­ vealing their medical appropriateness, based on a demonstrated medical information and/or confirmed scientific efficacy. Our aim has been to supply a accomplished insurance of rules and practi­ cal purposes of the rehabilitation tools of the commonest activities accidents, and we've attempted to mix the range of workmanship and backgrounds of a multidis­ ciplinary workforce of contributing authors.

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In our opinion, more effort is necessary to let athletes and trainers know that sport-specific proprioceptive exercises have the same importance for improving performance and preventing lesions as warmup, stretching, and strengthening. References 1. Abbott LC, Saunders JB, Dec M et al (1944) Injuries to the ligament of the knee joint. J Bone Joint Surg 26:503-521 2. Allum JH, Honegger F, Schicks H (1993) Vestibular and proprioceptive modulation of postural synergies in normal subjects. J Vestib Res 3:59-85 3.

I III ! 3. Representation of the order of MU recruitment by size (al and algebraic summation of many repetitive sequences of MUAPs for all active motor units in the vicinity of the re cording electrodes (b 1 represented by a triphasic potential, which is the difference in potential between poles A and B (Fig. 2). Once an action potential reaches a muscle fiber, it propagates proximally and distally. A MUAP is the spatiotemporal summation of MUAPs for an entire motor unit (MU). An EMG signal is the algebraic summation of many repetitive sequences of MUAPs for all active motor units in the vicinity of the recording electrodes.

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