Four benefits of neuromuscular re-education for ACL injuries

ACL injuries can cause you to experience pain. But, these injuries can also cause a loss of normal function in your knee and the muscles that support your knee. There are several beneficial therapies that may help to return your knee to normal levels of function. One form of therapy that can help you achieve this goal is neuromuscular re-education.

Our team at Excel Sports and Physical Therapy has been helping patients in the greater St. Louis, Missouri area with their physical therapy needs for more than 30 years. During that time, we’ve worked with countless patients, and we’ve helped them recover from many different types of injuries. One of the things that makes our team so successful is that we tailor all of our physical therapy treatments to your injury. 

A type of treatment that we may add to your therapy for ACL injuries is neuromuscular re-education, and this form of therapy may bring you several benefits.

The top four benefits of neuromuscular re-education for ACL Injuries

Neuromuscular re-education is one form of physical therapy that can have many benefits for ACL injuries. But, you may want to know more about this type of therapy before it’s included in your recovery plan.

Neuromuscular re-education is the retraining of your brain to perform reflex and voluntary muscle movements normally. This type of therapy is necessary because many types of injuries result in nerve damage. Nerve damage makes it more difficult for you to move your muscles in a coordinated way. An ACL tear is just the type of injury that can cause nerve damage. This type of injury can make it difficult for you to control your knee muscles.

With neuromuscular re-education, you can help take back control of your knee muscles. One benefit that this form of therapy offers is improving your proprioception. Proprioception is the medical term for your sense of the relative positions of different body parts. ACL therapy that includes neuromuscular re-education can help you improve this sense. Regaining this sense of the relative positions of your body parts is vital to allowing you to move normally after your injury.

Improving your proprioception isn’t the only benefit offered by neuromuscular re-education. In fact, there are several other benefits that this type of therapy may offer you. Some of these other benefits include improvements to your:

• Balance
• Coordination
• Posture

Thanks to these four benefits, neuromuscular re-education for ACL injuries may help you regain normal movement in your knee, and you may even be able to regain it faster.

Schedule an appointment today

Does neuromuscular re-education sound like something you’d be interested in adding to your therapy? Our Excel Sports and Physical Therapy team makes it easy to find out if this type of therapy is right for you. It’s as simple as contacting one of our 11 locations in the greater St. Louis, Missouri area now to schedule an appointment for your ACL injury.