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Sydney based physiotherapist! Thought I’d share my client (who is actually my friend)

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7 WEEKS POST ACL & MENISCUS SURGERY↓

Braxton jumped today. For the first time since surgery.

He was hesitant. That’s completely normal. The knee was ready before the mind was. But he got there, and that moment matters more than any metric.

At 7 weeks we’re not just building strength anymore. We’re starting to ask the system to produce force, absorb it, and reorganise under load it hasn’t felt before. That’s the shift from rehab to performance preparation.

Here’s what we worked through:

→ Rear foot elevated hinge on ball with punch: single leg loading through the hip with an unpredictable upper body demand. The body has to find stability on its own, we just set up the problem.

→ Step down with punch: controlling deceleration on the operated leg while managing a simultaneous task. This is where rehab starts looking like sport.

→ Borzov jumps with aquabag on back: a controlled plyometric stimulus from a split stance, heel drive up and down with load shifting on the back. First introduction to a jumping pattern post op. Low amplitude, high intent.

→ Hip lock switches: building the stable attractor pattern the knee needs to self-organise under speed and direction change later in the program.

Seven weeks in. The system is waking up.

30 DAYS AFTER ACL SURGERY

PT here working in Sydney, Australia. Thought I’d share how we do things for post-op ACL rehab.

I’m Abdulla, a physiotherapist at Rehab N Run in Liverpool, Sydney. My approach to ACL rehab is built around Frans Bosch Systems, which means we think about movement as a coordination problem, not just a strength problem.

Most ACL rehab protocols treat recovery as a checklist. Hit 90% quad symmetry, tick the box, return to sport. We don’t work like that.

We use a framework that progresses movement from individual muscle control, to local joint coordination, to global chain integration, to total athletic expression. Every exercise has a reason. Every session has a direction.

At 30 days post-op, the goal isn’t to push load. It’s to start training the system. We’re working with attractors, the movement patterns the body defaults to under pressure, and fluctuators, the variables we introduce to stress-test those patterns without breaking them.

This video shows what that looks like in practice at one month out.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZeSRD4p-zw/?igsh=cmM5d2x0Y2U4N3Rx

If you’re post-op ACL and feel like your rehab is just quad sets and straight leg raises, drop a comment or DM me.

Happy to take a look at where you’re at.

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30 DAYS AFTER ACL SURGERY
PT here working in Sydney, Australia. Thought I’d share how we do things for post-op ACL rehab.

I’m Abdulla, a physiotherapist at Rehab N Run in Liverpool, Sydney. My approach to ACL rehab is built around Frans Bosch Systems, which means we think about movement as a coordination problem, not just a strength problem.

Most ACL rehab protocols treat recovery as a checklist. Hit 90% quad symmetry, tick the box, return to sport. We don’t work like that.

We use a framework that progresses movement from individual muscle control, to local joint coordination, to global chain integration, to total athletic expression. Every exercise has a reason. Every session has a direction.

At 30 days post-op, the goal isn’t to push load. It’s to start training the system. We’re working with attractors, the movement patterns the body defaults to under pressure, and fluctuators, the variables we introduce to stress-test those patterns without breaking them.

This video shows what that looks like in practice at one month out.

If you’re post-op ACL and feel like your rehab is just quad sets and straight leg raises, drop a comment or DM me. Happy to take a look at where you’re at.

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