Ep. 24: Psychological Readiness for ACL Return to Sport

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Athletes First Performance Podcast

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The Athletes First Performance Podcast is focused on improving the knowledge of athletes and service members, sports medicine practitioners, and human performance professionals, in the topics of military and sports performance and rehabilitation. The host, James Zotto, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS is a residency trained physical therapists who is currently working as a H2F Physical Therapist with the Army.

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Ep. 24: Psychological Readiness for ACL Return to Sport

Athletes First Performance Podcast

36 minutes 33 seconds

1 year ago

Ep. 24: Psychological Readiness for ACL Return to Sport

Griffin Zink, PT, DPT, CSCS joined the podcast to discuss psychological readiness for athletes returning to sport following ACL reconstruction.

We reviewed his residency research project as well as his recently published article in Sports Health: The Influence of Strength and Sport Exposure on Psychological Readiness After ACL Reconstruction
Topics Include:

Why psychological readiness should be considered independently from strength and hop testing
Screening psychological readiness via the ACL-RSI
The Inverted U Theory and the critical timepoints and milestones during rehab that have fluctuations in emotions
When to administer the ACL-RSI during the return to sport continuum
How demographics such as age and gender impact psychological readiness
Potential interventions to address psychological readiness

Contact:

Instagram: ⁠@GriffinZink

Email: griffinzink1@gmail.com

Zink GP, Zwolski CM, Thomas SM, Paterno MV, Schmitt LC. The Influence of Strength and Sport Exposure on Psychological Readiness After ACL Reconstruction. Sports Health. 2024;16(2):239-246. doi:10.1177/19417381231223522⁠
Thanks for listening and as always, please let us know if you have any questions, recommendations, or topics you would like us to cover!

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Run Time: 36:33 Released on 7April2024