In the acute phase the patient usually comes to our attention after about 8/10 days from the episode of acute neck pain that forced him to go to the emergency room where he’s usually treated with drug therapy.
The first goal of the rehabilitation program is the control of pain and recovery of mobility through the use of physical therapies (TENS, laser, hyperthermia), manual therapies with relaxing massage and stress relieving the cervical spine area and trapezes and passive stretching, assisted and auto-assisted; everything is designed to restore flexion-extension, rotation and lateral flexion often reduced in terms of mobility.
After you have recovered the ROM the protocol consists in the recovery of the deficient muscles of the cervical spine area, shoulder joint and upper limb with the use of rubber bands, tubing, weights and core muscles; it is advisable to start an aerobic activity for a global metabolic recovery.
The therapeutic program ends with the resumption of the sport specific gesture on the field in order to achieve pre-trauma physical condition using postural and proprioceptive exercises on different unstable surfaces.
