in reverse order. I have only had a few weeks to work on this in terms of reinforcing mobility and stability in the right areas with the team but after looking at these athletes whom are sidelined, it is telling me that there will be a strong emphasis on developing these qualities this off season and now. A couple things I have also gotten done is getting the AT's to stop doing repeated flexion for rehab to strengthen "core" and we have been really working the stability component. Also working on movement patterns especially the squat. Just yesterday, after getting an injured athlete with a knee injury to squat properly, he was bewildered at the fact that all the activation was burning in his hips and he didn't feel that strain one his knees and quads to bring himself up anymore. Improving these qualities and movements hopefully will get a reduction in the amount of athletes standing on the sidelines and keeping them on the field.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tape an Asprin to it!!
With any sport you will see your fair share of injuries. So far in football we have had a handful on some unfortunate contact injuries ranging from a back problem, ACL, and a couple hyper extensions. Currently the Athletic Trainers have turned over most all of these athletes to me for assessment/workouts. In doing do I have noticed one very pronounced commonality. Thinking in terms of the mobility/stability continuum, they are somewhat
in reverse order. I have only had a few weeks to work on this in terms of reinforcing mobility and stability in the right areas with the team but after looking at these athletes whom are sidelined, it is telling me that there will be a strong emphasis on developing these qualities this off season and now. A couple things I have also gotten done is getting the AT's to stop doing repeated flexion for rehab to strengthen "core" and we have been really working the stability component. Also working on movement patterns especially the squat. Just yesterday, after getting an injured athlete with a knee injury to squat properly, he was bewildered at the fact that all the activation was burning in his hips and he didn't feel that strain one his knees and quads to bring himself up anymore. Improving these qualities and movements hopefully will get a reduction in the amount of athletes standing on the sidelines and keeping them on the field.
in reverse order. I have only had a few weeks to work on this in terms of reinforcing mobility and stability in the right areas with the team but after looking at these athletes whom are sidelined, it is telling me that there will be a strong emphasis on developing these qualities this off season and now. A couple things I have also gotten done is getting the AT's to stop doing repeated flexion for rehab to strengthen "core" and we have been really working the stability component. Also working on movement patterns especially the squat. Just yesterday, after getting an injured athlete with a knee injury to squat properly, he was bewildered at the fact that all the activation was burning in his hips and he didn't feel that strain one his knees and quads to bring himself up anymore. Improving these qualities and movements hopefully will get a reduction in the amount of athletes standing on the sidelines and keeping them on the field.
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