Ep 170 – ACL Injury Management: What Every Clinician Should Know with Mick Hughes
Apr 17, 2025
💭” Fifty percent of people can return to their pre-injury level of sport without an ACL’’ - Mick Hughes
Our guest Mick Hughes, M. Sports Physio, B. Physio, B. Ex. Sci APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist is the co-founder of Learn.Physio and an APA titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist. After spending 6 years in Melbourne and consulting at the Melbourne Sports Medicine Centre, he relocated to Townsville QLD in 2022 with his wife and young family and now consults at the North Queensland Physiotherapy Centre. He has a strong clinical interest in ACL injury prevention and rehabilitation, seeing approximately 15-20 ACL injured patients a week.
With his passion of improving outcomes in ACL injured patients, he helped develop the Melbourne ACL Rehabilitation Guide with Learn.Physio co-founder, and APA titled Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, Randall Cooper. In the last few years he has also been involved in 3 ACL research projects and has lectured and mentored under-graduate students at JCU and post-grad students at UQ and La Trobe Universities.
📚You will learn about:
- Key factors in choosing surgical vs. non-surgical management, including pros and cons
- What effective prehab and early post-op rehab should include
- How to safely progress exercises in the post-op phase
- When to safely introduce open-chain knee extensions, running, and plyometrics
- Common mistakes clinicians should avoid in ACL rehab
- Return-to-sport guidelines and more
🔎 Mick Hughes’s resources of information:
THE CROSS BRACING PROTOCOL by Stephanie R Filbay, Jane Rooney, and Tom Cross
Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by Roula Kotsifaki, Vasileios Korakakis et.al
https://www.mickhughes.physio/
The Melbourne ACL Rehabilitation Guide
📲 Mick Hughes’s contact information:
🐦X: @mickwhughes
📱Facebook: Mick Hughes: Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
💻LinkedIn: Mick Hughes
📸Instagram: @mickhughes.physio
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