Understanding the seasons an athlete goes through is vital to aid in recovery. Prehab needs to focus on restoring pain-free ROM and imbalances created secondary to a grueling season. ・・・ If you're a healthcare professional who works with athletes, this continuing education course should be required. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to implement evidence based principles for better outcomes with their athletes. - #Repost clinicalathlete: Excerpt from the newest course in the ClinicalAthlete curriculum: Scientific Principles of Sports Rehab (SPOSR) - Top Picture: Low end of the curve is the threshold stimulus required to cause a desired adaptive effect. Upper end is a point of diminishing returns - beyond this point, further application of stimulus yields no increased benefits or perhaps could have detrimental effects. (Adapted from Plisk, 2003). - Bottom Picture: The second slide expands on this thought. We need to be eliciting a sufficient stressor in rehab to evoke adaptation. ...