A musculação como forma de reabilitação em atletas em pós cirúrgico de ruptura de LCA

Abstract

This work aims to analyze bodybuilding as a form of rehabilitation in athletes, in the post surgical period of ACL rupture. It is justified by the importance of studies on this subject, as the demand for this modality for the purpose of rehabilitation has grown a lot in recent years. Along with the increase in demand, the medical indication also had a great increase, as weight training is very efficient not only in gaining strength or muscle mass, but also in improving power, flexibility, proprioception and quality of life, in addition to reduce the risk of injury. A bibliographic review research was carried out on the search engines, academic google, articles, PUC's virtual library, websites, with an exploratory nature, with studies from 2003 to 2020, being analytical and qualitative in nature. It was observed in studies that weight training provides an improvement in muscle mass gain, strength, resistance, and proprioception of patients recovering from ACL surgery, in addition to improving the range of motion of the recovering limb and a decrease in the condition of pain, which improves the individual's quality of life, and allows for better rehabilitation with the prospect of returning to activities performed before the injury.