Conservative treatment of an incomplete anterior cruciate ligament injury in a young multi-sports athlete|Trattamento conservativo di una lesione incompleta al legamento crociato anteriore in un atleta di giovane età che pratica diverse discipline sportive

Pediatric and adolescent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries have dramatically increased in the last years. In those cases, a conservative treatment is proposed with a delayed reconstruction. In case of conservative treatment, it is decisive to have a rehabilitation approach with knee stability. The aim of this case report was to describe how a conservative rehabilitation, focused on a neuromuscular intervention and a fun workout adapted to the young age, can be effective to involve a young patient and at the same time to reduce risk of the reinjury. We present in this study the case of a 10-year-old male, praticing a multi-sport including tennis, sky and football ( soccer), confirmed with an isolated partial ACL tear on his right knee. After the rehabilitation treatment performed, this case suggests that a specific neuromuscular training could be an important chance to approach and integrate a conservative rehabilitation to reduce primary and secondary ACL injury and avoid overload on a non-surgically treated knee in younger athletes.y