Your rehab cleared the clinic. It didn’t clear the pitch. Peter answers 5 listener questions on what real return to play actually takes.

Five listener questions, all from athletes and practitioners on Instagram. Session design and assessment, early ACL rehab, pelvic and rib cage stability, isometric hamstring programming, and what to do when you keep getting re-injured.

The hamstring case study is the standout for practitioners. Athlete kept breaking down at the lateral hamstring. Loading the biceps fem harder was not the answer. The fix came from understanding what the medial hamstrings were not contributing.

For athletes stuck in a re-injury loop: identify the rate limiter, train the underdeveloped area in the gym, then earn the return to match play on your terms. The body breaks the same way until that piece changes.

Topics covered: full in-person session and assessment protocol, early ACL loading philosophy and patellar graft donor site work, pelvic and rib cage stability with breath as range access, isometric hamstring programming and the medial vs lateral case study, and a framework for breaking the serial re-injury cycle.

CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and today’s Q&A format

0:37 Q1: In-person session and assessment protocol (Robbie Burke)

16:19 Q2: Early ACL rehab + patellar graft donor site

20:13 Q3: Pelvic and rib cage stability

24:59 Q4: Isometric hamstring + medial vs lateral case study

38:32 Q5: Breaking the re-injury cycle

42:58 Wrap up

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