Direct current electrical fields can modulate a number of factors involved in the healing response after AC surgery, as it brings needed blood flow, nutrients, and specialized cells to the area. In order to facilitate the ACL graft-tendon healing process, low levels of DC stimulation are applied as close to the surgical site as possible…
Our team is so proud of Kaleb coming back from THREE surgeries! Not only a great talent on the field, but an even better young man. He is so much more than just a football player, he’s an inspiration for anyone struggling through adversity, coming back from injury, and even more specifically, ACL surgery. We…
A few weeks ago, Zach was asked to interview on Kneed to Know, a show that focuses on helping people to get fit after knee surgeries and injuries. During the interview, Zach and the host, Josh Bond, discuss the following: The importance of utilizing an ACL prehab program to go into surgery feeling 100% How…
Last week, we caught up with a number of pro athletes in the Exos training facility just outside of Dallas. I noticed that one of the athletes had been instructed to do “quad sets,” but was having a difficult time activating the quad, due to a few common compensation patterns that set in after knee…
While coaching our athletes, performance specialists at Accelerate ACL are trained to use positive cues as much as possible. In general, we try not to use terms like “Do not do x,” because we find athletes respond and learn much better to the more positive version of the cue like “Try doing y.” However, there…