Find out in less than 2 minutes how fit you are to return to sport
Why we built this
1 in 3 people who return to intense cutting sports sustain a reinjury in the first 2 years after ACL reconstruction. For every month that return to sport is delayed until 9 months, the rate of knee reinjury is reduced by 51%.
We built this tool to raise awareness about what's at stake when returning to sport after ACL reconstruction.
Patients either return too fast or with too little preparation, without knowing that they are unprepared. This is often followed by complications down the road, in both the short and long term.
It's not you, it's the system. Insurance-backed therapists are frequently not equipped to follow your whole journey from off the surgical table back to your sport. But it's your body, so you need to know what it takes to be ready.
The readiness score uses science-backed standards to evaluate your ability to return to sport. It's a small step in a larger initiative to help physical therapists ensure their athletes know exactly how to get back to sport without any of the uncertainty that currently exists in the process.
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