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Rehabilitation and Return to Sport

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Surgery of the Meniscus

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Meniscal tears and related problems are a common issue in an active population. Lately there has been an increasing interest in the re-establishment of the correct joint homeostasis and return to activity after meniscal surgery.

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Della Villa, S., Della Villa, F., Ricci, M., Tsapralis, K. (2016). Rehabilitation and Return to Sport. In: Hulet, C., Pereira, H., Peretti, G., Denti, M. (eds) Surgery of the Meniscus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49188-1_27

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