Comments on: My New Love Affair With the Concept 2 ERG http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:11:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Neil Chasan, PT, MMT http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Neil Chasan, PT, MMT Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-13 Happy to help, please let me know if I can be of further assistance!<br/><br/>N Happy to help, please let me know if I can be of further assistance!

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]]> By: Claude http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Claude Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:18:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-12 Neil thank you for your response and a very through answer to my question.<br/>The ACL surgery was done on a 13 year old girl who is very athletic, extremely intelligent and motivated to achieve a competitive level.<br/>We are having a 2k sprint Feb 28 which would like to enter with her father. I will ask her to be an assistant not a participant.<br/>With your information she can ask her doctor the appropriate questions and get more specific direction for her physical therapist. She has a good therapist but the therapist does not have an athletic background and deal more with the general population. Neil thank you for your response and a very through answer to my question.
The ACL surgery was done on a 13 year old girl who is very athletic, extremely intelligent and motivated to achieve a competitive level.
We are having a 2k sprint Feb 28 which would like to enter with her father. I will ask her to be an assistant not a participant.
With your information she can ask her doctor the appropriate questions and get more specific direction for her physical therapist. She has a good therapist but the therapist does not have an athletic background and deal more with the general population.

]]> By: Neil Chasan, PT, MMT http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Neil Chasan, PT, MMT Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:20:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-11 Claude, good question. The Concept 2 requires a certain amount of knee flexion for proper use. The first restriction will be your lack of knee flexion. Also, depending on if there was cartilage repair or a bone bruise with your injury, you doctor might have other weight bearing restrictions as well. So before you get on the erg, please check with your doc that loading in a flexed posture is OK. Assuming that you have full ROM and no other weight bearing restrictions, as soon as you can bend your knee far enough to achieve a normal erg stroke, then you should be good to go. The erg loads the knee in the sagital plan only, often is one of the easiest loads to attenuate in the knee (as opposed to the frontal and transverse planes), so that is one reason why the erg is actually a good post ACL rehab tool. You get bilateral quad training, good proprioceptive feedback through weight bearing, and good tension of the hamstring if you use good form. In the event that you had a hamstring tendon graft, you should be concerned a little bit about the repair of the hamstring. I would wait at least 6 weeks before pushing hard on the erg to allow the hamstring to scar down. Claude, good question. The Concept 2 requires a certain amount of knee flexion for proper use. The first restriction will be your lack of knee flexion. Also, depending on if there was cartilage repair or a bone bruise with your injury, you doctor might have other weight bearing restrictions as well. So before you get on the erg, please check with your doc that loading in a flexed posture is OK. Assuming that you have full ROM and no other weight bearing restrictions, as soon as you can bend your knee far enough to achieve a normal erg stroke, then you should be good to go. The erg loads the knee in the sagital plan only, often is one of the easiest loads to attenuate in the knee (as opposed to the frontal and transverse planes), so that is one reason why the erg is actually a good post ACL rehab tool. You get bilateral quad training, good proprioceptive feedback through weight bearing, and good tension of the hamstring if you use good form. In the event that you had a hamstring tendon graft, you should be concerned a little bit about the repair of the hamstring. I would wait at least 6 weeks before pushing hard on the erg to allow the hamstring to scar down.

]]> By: Claude http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Claude Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:04:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-10 The erg is one of the best pieces of equipment you will find in the gym.<br/>Question: After ACL reconstructive surgery when should you get back on the erg? The erg is one of the best pieces of equipment you will find in the gym.
Question: After ACL reconstructive surgery when should you get back on the erg?

]]> By: Neil Chasan, PT, MMT http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Neil Chasan, PT, MMT Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:18:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-9 Seanna, next time I see you lets give it a whirl! Seanna, next time I see you lets give it a whirl!

]]> By: Seanna http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Seanna Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/02/my-new-love-affair-with-the-concept-2-erg/#comment-8 Now that my foot is acting up, perhaps I should try rowing. Now that my foot is acting up, perhaps I should try rowing.

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