Four college athletes who had hip surgery returned to sport at about 5.75 months with no reinjury over four years. This is a descriptive case series with no comparison group — it cannot show the functional test or the rehab protocol caused the good outcome.
All four athletes achieved return to sport at a mean of 5.75 ± 1.44 months, with percent limb symmetry across FLEE components ranging from 97.95% to 110.04%, and no re-injuries or re-operations were recorded over a mean follow-up of 52.89 months.
No formal hypothesis testing or inferential statistical analyses were performed because of the small sample size; all results are descriptive.
The multi-phase progressive rehabilitation protocol used by all four athletes was developed by the senior author in conjunction with the institutional physical therapy team, meaning the protocol being described was designed by the lead investigator.
Single-blind randomized controlled trial. Sixty-four participants were randomized across two intervention arms and assessed at twelve weeks for the primary outcome…
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