ACL Rehabilitation: Motor Learning Strategies for Adaptive
Neuroplasticity (Recorded Webinar)

Video Runtime: 58 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 1 Minute

This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from those of standard MedBridge courses.

This webinar will provide an overview of how the brain changes after ACL injury and how clinicians can address those changes to improve their patient outcomes. While the purpose of rehabilitation is ultimately to restore or enable optimal movement capacity, typical rehabilitation focuses on physical capacity (strength, range of motion) and not the transition of those attributes to coordinated movement under a variety of conditions. The missing links are the utilization of best practices in motor learning to improve retention, and transfer of movement coordination strategies to sport. This webinar will provide theoretical and applicable foundations for the design of augmented rehabilitation that both targets physical capacity and prepares patients for the movement coordination demands of sport.

Learning Objectives

• Link the neuroplasticity after ACL injury with sensorimotor compensations
• Apply motor learning principles
• Examine patient motor coordination retention and transfer
• Create augmented therapy approaches that integrate motor learning and cognitive principles