Read the testimonies of members of the medical staff of the French Ski Federation on their training in the Allyane neuromotor reprogramming method and its integration into their practice.
Why did you decide to train in the Allyane method?
Initially, we met Stéphane Ladoucette, an Allyane trainer, during a presentation on the method. It really resonated with us; we have quite a bit of traumatology related to the Santy orthopedic center, and Dr. Sonnery-Cottet was quickly on board with this method.
One thing led to another, we gathered information, we worked with Allyane practitioners and we ended up getting trained.
What is the contribution of this method to the care of your patients?
We have a large part of knee-oriented traumaThese are pathologies that are very conducive to motor inhibition.
The idea was to find a solution that would allow us to reduce the recovery time from injuries or simply decrease the risk of injury. Allyane is a method that quickly found its place in our daily practice, and which we now use quite regularly.
Given that we had many cruciate ligament injuries in our practice, and therefore many flexion contractures related to motor inhibition of the vastus medialis and hamstring contraction, we were struggling with this. Now, with the Allyane method, we save time on rehabilitation and therefore subsequently on athletic reconditioning and returning to sport.
In the longer term, we find old injuries and operations that we test again, and we realize that there are often persistent motor inhibitions, and this allows us to work on them again.
Athletes who were injured 3, 5 years ago or more have passed the stage of injury recovery and rehabilitation, but they still have this discomfort, this loss of sensation, of activation, whether it is the hamstrings or other muscles, and when they have returned to competition they still have this slight discomfort, ultimately Allyane unlocks quite a lot of things.
How have you integrated the Allyane method into your daily practice?
We are fortunate to have the full approval of the doctors on this matter, so we centralize requests for physiotherapy care, we conduct a physiotherapy assessment and check for potential motor inhibitions, and from there we take charge of the sessions between the 4 practitioners trained at the National Ski and Snowboard Centre.
For which indications do you observe the most results?
Regarding cruciate ligament injuries, chronic motor inhibitions following an intervention.
In my practice, I had a case of adhesive capsulitis at 18 months. In just one session, we gained 25 degrees of external rotation, whereas the patient had been stuck at 10 degrees for 18 months. The patient has regained his mobility and is no longer experiencing any discomfort. I will see him again in a month to assess his progress.
In the potential indications, we sometimes encounter muscle atrophy or compensatory mechanisms embedded in the motor pattern during prolonged rehabilitation. We see Allyane as a true accelerator for regaining strength in the vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, or quadriceps. Before our training, a colleague had performed a reprogramming on a skier with a vastus lateralis injury, and within just one session, he had regained strength; even on skis, he had a completely different feel.
Would you recommend that your colleagues get training? Why?
Allyane unlocks quite a few things that we work on but don't progress on, such as ankle instabilities following a sprain.
We were already working with Allyane practitioners externally, now we can do it ourselves and very easily from a logistical point of view, both for the athlete and for us, being able to do it at home is still much easier.
This is a new tool that allows us to accelerate progress on certain pathologies where we encounter difficulties with other tools we've learned in physiotherapy or rehabilitation. We should try to use this method earlier in the process.
For the athlete, this prevents him from experiencing frustration if he invests a lot of effort without achieving results.