From Injury to Impact: Optimizing Return-to-Play Outcomes and Reinjury Prevention via Four-Pillar Rehabilitation Strategy in Elite Football—A Clinical Study in a Sports Scenario

These findings emphasize the crucial importance of training load management, the integration of injury prevention strategies throughout the rehabilitation process, and the early initiation of on-field rehabilitation. Within the clinical setting of OFI Crete FC, the implementation of this integrated rehabilitation framework was associated with favorable observations in injury incidence, player absence days, and return-to-play timelines, which may reflect that the approach has potential benefits while remaining observational in nature.