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616.728.-001-036.82:615.821/825:796.332

Authors

Natal’ya Yu. Tarabrina*, Elena Yu. Grabovskaya*
*V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russian Federation)
Corresponding author: Natal’ya Tarabrina, address: prosp. akademika Vernadskogo 4, Simferopol, 295007, Respublika Krym, Russian Federation; e-mail: nata-tarabrina@mail.ru

Abstract

Search for and development of modern rehabilitation methods for athletes after injuries is an urgent interdisciplinary issue involving sports medicine, physiology, biomechanics, and psychology. We studied the possibility of using a rehabilitation programme including massage and therapeutic exercises to restore the functional status of the injured knee in football players. This set of therapeutic exercises was developed and implemented for the first time in the training process (Patent no. 2603619 of 27.11.2016). The study involved 10 football players aged 19–22 years with knee joint injuries. Functional diagnosis was made on the 1st, 10th and 20th day of the rehabilitation course both on the healthy and on the injured extremity. The following parameters were recorded for all the subjects: circumference of the joints, angle of flexion/extension of the joints, dynamic endurance, and static endurance. It is shown that after the rehabilitation course, parameters of relative rest (circumference and angle of flexion/extension of the joints) recorded in the injured joint corresponded to those of the healthy joint (the deviation ranging between 0.6 and 3.1 % (p < 0.05)), while at critical load (static and dynamic endurance) the performance of the injured joint was significantly lower than that of the healthy joint (the deviation ranging between 5.6 and 23.2 % (p < 0,001)). It should be noted that the rehabilitation effect achieved by the 10th day of the course was greater than that achieved by the 20th day, which means that rehabilitation should start as soon as possible after the injury.

Keywords

knee injury, massage of lower extremities, therapeutic exercises, recovery of athletes, football injuries

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