Explicit motor learning interventions are still relevant for ACL injury rehabilitation: do not put all your eggs in the implicit basket!

Elmar Kal^{1

2}, Toby Ellmers^{2

3}, Jed Diekfuss^{4

5}, Marinus Winters⁶, John van der Kamp^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK elmar.kal@brunel.ac.uk.
² College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London, London, UK.
³ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴ The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Research Unit for General Practice in Aalborg, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Faculty of Health Sciences, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁸ Research Centre for Exercise, School and Sport, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Elmar Kal et al. Br J Sports Med. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;56(2):63-64.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103643. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Elmar Kal^{1

2}, Toby Ellmers^{2

3}, Jed Diekfuss^{4

5}, Marinus Winters⁶, John van der Kamp^{7

8}

¹ College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK elmar.kal@brunel.ac.uk.
² College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London, London, UK.
³ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴ The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Research Unit for General Practice in Aalborg, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Faculty of Health Sciences, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁸ Research Centre for Exercise, School and Sport, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: ACL; knee injuries; sports rehabilitation programmes.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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