Exercises
Week by week, with its evidence showing
Exercise selection was never the randomized variable in any trial — weight-bearing was. So most of what follows rests on published protocols, consensus, and stated rationale rather than trial data, and every element says which. That honesty is what distinguishes this from the material it replaces. Adjacent weeks often say the same thing, which is the honest answer rather than a failure to find a difference.
IIProtectionWeeks 0–6 in studied protocolsopen its 6 weeksIIILoadingWeeks 6–12 in studied protocolsopen its 7 weeksIVStrengthMonths 3–6 in studied protocolsopen its 15 weeksVImpactMonths 6–12 in studied protocolsopen its 27 weeksVILong horizonYear 1 onwardopen its 1 weeks
ReferenceThe exercise libraryevery movement, its purpose, its evidenceBoth programs are complete across stages II–VI — patellofemoral written first, tibiofemoral finished from the canonical protocol’s full text. There is deliberately no pre-op program page: whether one should exist at all is an open editorial question, not an omission.