The Clinician's Guide to
ACL Strength & Performance Testing

Testing that actually changes
what you do next

If you work with ACL patients, you already know the uncomfortable truth: we can’t see strength. A knee can look great in the clinic and still be hiding a 30% quad deficit, a hamstring graft site that never recovered or a jump asymmetry that only shows up when you test vertically. Objective testing closes that gap. With objective measurement technology like DynaMo, NordBord and ForceDecks sitting in more clinics than ever, the barrier isn’t access anymore. It’s knowing how to set up, what to measure and what the numbers mean.

That’s what this guide is for. Across ten short chapters, each paired with a full video on the Learn.Physio YouTube channel, you’ll follow two real ACL reconstruction patients through a complete testing session: Sam at 9 weeks post-op, and Matt at 8 months. You’ll see every setup, every cue, every mistake to avoid and every benchmark we’re chasing along the way.