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The 5 ACL Self-Tests.

Five tests you can do in your living room in 20 minutes. They tell you something most discharge appointments don't - whether your body has closed the gap between PT clearance and the demands of your sport. Free, written by a Doctor of Physical Therapy.

What's inside

5 tests, 1 page each, plus what your scores mean.

About 8 pages total. Reads on your phone in one sitting and use the same day.

The 5 tests

  1. Quad activation - can your involved quad fire the way the uninvolved one does?
  2. Single-leg sit-to-stand - quad strength and frontal-plane control under bodyweight.
  3. Eccentric step-down - the descent-tolerance test (trail running + ski turns).
  4. Single-leg hop for distance - the LSI test from the ACL literature.
  5. Confidence (ACL-RSI short form) - the psychological readiness piece.

Each test has clear pass / partial / fail criteria and what each result means.

You'll also get a handful of follow-up emails over the next few weeks - usually one piece of evidence or one self-test angle that builds on what's in the pack. No spam. Unsubscribe any time.

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Who wrote this

Eddie Stevenson, DPT, CPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy and performance coach based in Bozeman, Montana. Most of my clinical work is with post-ACL mountain athletes - skiers, runners, climbers. I built the 5-test pack because the gap between "cleared" and "ready" is where most athletes get hurt again, and almost no one tests for it honestly.

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