POSSIBILITIES OF RECOVERY BY MEANS OF PHYSIOTHERAPY AFTER ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT PLASTY (KENETH-JONES) AT HANDBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

Sports training and competitive activity, conducted under conditions of full employment to gain the best performance, can generate, due to several causes, a variety of illnesses and serious injuries of the knee joint. The physical therapist, as part of the interdisciplinary team responsible for training the sportives (athletes), can intervene in the sense of recovery and prevention of post-traumatic shock installation (post-trauma) that can decrease considerably the knee function and that can sometimes lead the athletes to abandon the high performance activity.