CLINICAL RESOURCES

A clearer path from rehab to hockey.

Find hockey-specific injury guidelines, late-stage readiness tools and performance resources. Choose the resource that matches the athlete’s status.

RESOURCE DIRECTORY

Find the resource for your next decision.

Search a name or choose who it is for, its purpose and a body region. Open a tool or download a PDF directly from its card.

15 resources

Interactive tool

Free Hockey Season Planner

Build a season calendar, repeat a typical week, adjust individual days and download your plan.

Players / parents / coachesWhole athlete
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Interactive tool

Weekly Hockey Calculator

Organize skating, games, strength and recovery context for one week.

Players / parents / coachesWhole athlete
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Guide + PDF downloads

12-Skate Conditioning Framework

Four stages of performance preparation for healthy, medically cleared players. Includes web guides and downloadable PDFs.

Players & cliniciansWhole athlete
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Fillable PDF

Return to Game Clinician Toolkit

The fillable 9-page workflow for exposure logs, personal reference, trends and shared progression decisions.

CliniciansWhole athlete
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Example PDF

Athlete A: Completed Fictional Example

A 10-page example of workload, response, confidence, role and contact reasoning after full-practice clearance.

CliniciansWhole athlete
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Interactive tool

Return to Game Readiness Calculator

Review session dose, optional TRIMP, weekly trends and shared decisions.

CliniciansWhole athlete
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Printable summary

Printable Return to Game Summary

Open the printable summary after using the readiness calculator.

CliniciansWhole athlete
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PDF guideline

ACJ Separation

Hockey-specific return-to-play progression from acute protection through full contact, with timelines, criteria, testing, and return-to-sport checkpoints.

CliniciansShoulder
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PDF guideline

Arthroscopic Bankart Repair

Return-to-ice and contact progression after arthroscopic Bankart repair, including protected motion, skating exposure, contact preparation, and clearance criteria.

CliniciansShoulder
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PDF guideline

Hip Arthroscopy

Hockey-specific return-to-hockey progression after hip arthroscopy, including early protection, return-to-skate preparation, skating exposure, contact progression, and RTP criteria.

CliniciansHip
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PDF guideline

Adductor Strain

Grade-based conservative management and return-to-play progression for hockey athletes, including Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, skating progression, and Copenhagen loading guidance.

CliniciansHip
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PDF guideline

ACL Reconstruction

Hockey-specific return-to-ice and play progression after ACL reconstruction, including first-skate criteria, exposure dosing, practice progression, contact preparation, and RTP testing.

CliniciansKnee
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PDF guideline

MCL Reconstruction

Hockey-specific return-to-ice and contact progression after MCL reconstruction, including medial stability, valgus-control development, first-skate criteria, and contact clearance.

CliniciansKnee
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PDF guideline

Achilles Repair

Hockey-specific return-to-ice progression after Achilles tendon repair, including protected loading, strength development, running, skating, practice, and competition phases.

CliniciansAnkle
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PDF guideline

Syndesmosis Repair

Criteria-based return-to-ice roadmap after syndesmosis repair, including controlled weight bearing, skating progression, edge work, practice integration, and RTP criteria.

CliniciansAnkle
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Free season planning tool
Free Athlete Tools

Plan the hockey season.

Save practices, games and lifts. Review the week with practical recovery guidance.

Open Free Season Planner
Choosing the right pathway
Resource Pathways

Choose the pathway that matches the athlete's status.

This keeps healthy performance preparation separate from late-stage Return to Game decisions and diagnosis-specific injury rehabilitation.

12-Skate framework & stage guides
Performance & Conditioning

12-Skate Hockey Conditioning Framework

A four-stage, 12-skate progression for healthy, medically cleared junior, college, and professional players preparing for camp or the start of the season.

Designed for: full ice, timing or coach control, scored competition in every session, and a 60-minute session ceiling.

12-Skate Hockey Conditioning Framework timeline preview
Scope note: This is a performance resource, not an injury-rehabilitation protocol. It should be used with healthy, medically cleared athletes and adjusted based on readiness, response, and team policy.
Return to Game toolkit: scope & downloads
Featured Toolkit

Return to Game Readiness

A fillable clinician toolkit and completed fictional example for reviewing workload, response, confidence, role, contact, and shared progression after full-practice clearance.

Clinical use note: Use after the athlete is medically cleared for full practice while game clearance remains a separate decision.

Return to Game Readiness clinician toolkit preview
Toolkit downloads & completed example
Downloadable PDFs

Two resources built to work together.

The fillable toolkit gives clinicians the structure. The completed fictional example shows how the reasoning looks in practice.

Fillable clinician toolkit PDF preview
Fillable Clinician Toolkit

Return to Game Readiness Clinician Toolkit

A 9-page fillable workflow covering scope, personal healthy reference, session exposure logs, TRIMP context, 12-week trend worksheets, and shared progression decisions.

Athlete A completed fictional example PDF preview
Completed Fictional Example

Athlete A: The Readiness Story

A 10-page example showing how workload, response, confidence, role, contact status, and shared judgment can be reviewed after full-practice clearance.