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Return to ski · after ACL reconstruction

The ten weeks between finishing physical therapy and skiing again.

Most people are discharged from physical therapy months before they are ready to ski, and nobody owns the stretch in between. Montis does: a coached block built around your trip and your knee by a Doctor of Physical Therapy who skis, with your surgeon and physical therapist keeping every clearance.

Discharged, not done

Formal rehab ends when you walk, climb stairs and do your exercises. Skiing asks for something else: legs that absorb thousands of turns and keep their technique late in the day.

Two things, tracked apart

How hard you train and what your knee is allowed to absorb are kept separate. You can get strong while the impact ceiling stays exactly where your clinician set it.

The first day back

A playbook for the first ski days — warm-up, how long, which terrain, when to stop — written for you, and shared with your instructor if you choose.

What you actually receive

Start60–75 min kickoffThe surgery and the rehab so far, what your clinicians have allowed, the skiing you want back, your schedule and gear, a movement review and a conditioning baseline.
Week 125–30 min live workoutYou train where you will train — home or gym — while your coach removes the setup and execution friction.
Weeks 1–10Weekly written reviewYour training, your knee check-in and one exercise clip, reviewed every week in writing by your coach. You see what changed, or why the plan stays the same.
Week 5 · Week 1020-minute checkpoint callsThe kickoff, the midpoint and the close are the three checkpoints. The closing call is the planning call for the first days back.
ThroughoutYour knee, stagedJumping and landing come back in stages, each one opened by your coach only when the criteria for it are met and nothing your clinicians have said argues against it. If your physical therapist wants to watch, they can: a free seat shows them each stage.
Before the first daySki-Day PlaybookYour warm-up, how long, which terrain, when to stop, fuel, fluids and recovery — written for your first ski days back and rehearsed before you go.
AfterClose the loopA short note from you shapes the next block, or the membership that keeps you ready through the season.

Jumping and landing stay off your plan until the criteria for them are met and your clinician says so. When the information to judge a criterion is missing, the answer inside the app is no, not yes. Pain in the knee changes the session; a knee that is swollen, giving way or frightening you replaces the session with recovery and sends you to your clinician, not to a screen.

Your clinicians stay yours

This is strength and conditioning for a skier with a repaired knee, coached by a physical therapist who skis. It is not physical therapy, a diagnosis or a clearance, and it does not need your clinicians’ permission to begin. Your surgeon decides when you ski. What your physical therapist told you at discharge is the starting line your coach builds from. If either of them asks what this is, send them the page written for them; if they want to watch, a free seat shows them each stage.

The block

$2,000

10 weeks · one skier · charged after the kickoff call

  • Kickoff, a live first workout, ten weekly written reviews, a midpoint and a closing call, the Ski-Day Playbook for your first days back.
  • The Montis app on your phone: your sessions with exact demonstrations, your weekly knee check-in, your coach’s review.
  • Any physical therapy you still have is scheduled and billed as it always was. Montis never replaces it and never bills for it.
  • If your road is longer than ten weeks, the same coaching continues month to month ($450) until the trip.

Blocks are limited by the coach’s hours. Your coach is a Doctor of Physical Therapy; return-to-sport decisions still belong to the clinicians who treated you.

Request your block

$2,000 for the 10-week block, charged after the kickoff call. Strength and conditioning, not physical therapy; your surgeon decides when you ski.