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Principles of Rehabilitation

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The rehabilitation program of an injured player should be carried in a way to assure simultaneous quickest return of the player to training and competition while minimizing the risk of recurrence or future associated injuries. Herein, we discuss the fundamental stages of rehabilitation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira – Mendes Sports Centre – FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

    João Pedro Araújo & Isabel Lopes

  2. Medical Department, Al Jazira Football Club, Dubai, UAE

    João Pedro Araújo

  3. Sporting Clube de Braga, Football SAD, BRAGA, Portugal

    Filipe Guimarães & Vítor Moreira

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

  2. Hopital de la Croix-Rousse, University of Lyon 1 Hopital de la, Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France

    Philippe Neyret

  3. Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Federal University of São Paulo, Vila Clementino - São Paulo, Brazil

    Moises Cohen

  4. Isokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Della Villa

  5. 3B’s Research Group–Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal

    Helder Pereira

  6. ICVS/3B’s–PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

    J. Miguel Oliveira

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Araújo, J.P., Lopes, I., Guimarães, F., Moreira, V. (2017). Principles of Rehabilitation. In: van Dijk, C., Neyret, P., Cohen, M., Della Villa, S., Pereira, H., Oliveira, J. (eds) Injuries and Health Problems in Football . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53924-8_6

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