Back in the Game: a Smartphone Application to Support Athletes Returning to Sport After Serious Injury

"A six-month programme of cognitive-behavioural therapy delivered by smartphone application. The intervention commences in the first week after ACL reconstruction. The smartphone app is delivered in parallel with usual rehabilitation care.~Usual rehabilitation care: all participants will be referred to physiotherapy following ACL reconstruction. Overall treatment aims, content and progressions of rehabilitation will follow current clinical guidelines. The choice of specific therapies, exercises and the number of treatment sessions needed to achieve the treatment aims is at the clinical discretion of the treating physiotherapist."

Following ACL reconstruction, as per routine clinical practice, all participants will be referred to physiotherapy. Overall treatment aims, content and progressions of rehabilitation will follow current clinical guidelines. The choice of specific therapies, exercises and the number of treatment sessions needed to achieve the required treatment aims is at the clinical discretion of the treating physiotherapist.