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It can be hard as a parent, coach, or athlete to determine if you or your athlete is feeling pain verses normal muscle soreness. I would like to help define muscle soreness verses injury. *What is the difference between muscle soreness and injury? Muscle soreness: felt in the muscle belly, lasting 1-2 days post intense workout, felt upon stretch or contraction of the muscle, progressively decreasing in intensity. Injury: pain felt without change in activity, lasting more than 3 days post workout, felt upon rest, outside the muscle belly such a...
It can be hard as a parent, coach, or athlete to determine if you or your athlete is feeling pain verses normal muscle soreness. I would like to help define muscle soreness verses injury. *What is the difference between muscle soreness and injury? Muscle soreness: felt in the muscle belly, lasting 1-2 days post intense workout, felt upon stretch or contraction of the muscle, progressively decreasing in intensity. Injury: pain felt without change in activity, lasting more than 3 days post workout, felt upon rest, outside the muscle belly such as...
It can be hard as a parent, coach, or athlete to determine if you or your athlete is feeling pain verses normal muscle soreness. I would like to help define muscle soreness verses injury. *What is the difference between muscle soreness and injury? Muscle soreness: felt in the muscle belly, lasting 1-2 days post intense workout, felt upon stretch or contraction of the muscle, progressively decreasing in intensity. Injury: pain felt without change in activity, lasting more than 3 days post workout, felt upon rest, outside the muscle belly such as...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy DRUM ROLL PLEASE……….. The NUMBER 1 for Perfect 10.0’s Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season is…. 1) NUTRITION: Nutrition is the key to building a healthy athlete. The old sane “You are what you eat” is 100% true!! Every cell in your body is made from amino acids found in healthy protein sources. The lining of your gut and your nerves require healthy good fats and choles...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 2) CORE: Gymnasts tend to use their 6-pac muscles and hip flexors instead of the internal abdominals. It’s important they continuously training the internal obliques, external obliques and transverse abdominus. A manual blood pressure cuff used for biofeedback has been proven to help athletes FIND THEIR INNER CORE. The basic exercise is below. For more advanced core see PERFECT 10.0 CORE: FINDING YOUR INNER CORE. You can ord...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 3) HIP STABILITY: The posterior gluteus medius is one of the most important hip muscles to stabilize the hip during take-offs and landings. Poor gluteus medius firing can contribute to improper hip, knee, and ankle alignment which is the number 1 controllable risk factor for ankle sprains, chronic knee and hip pain and ACL injuries. See below one of the most effective exercises in strengthening the gluteus medius. For more advanc...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 4) SHOULDER STABILITY: The shoulder blade and shoulder must be stable and move properly to ensure proper loading of the shoulder and ability to efficiently swing bars without unnecessary stress on the rotator cuff, labrum, or biceps tendon. See below one of the most effective exercises in training proper gliding and stability of the shoulder. For more advanced and all-inclusive shoulder strengthening see PERFECT10.0 SHOULDER: FIN...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #5) STRETCHING: Gymnasts take time to stretch every practice. This is important to keep the muscles and joints limber and help prevent injury. The most important things about stretching are form, technique, and doing it every day. There are many ways to stretch and many different tools you can use. Below are some of the most basic important stretches, which are many times done with bad form, leading to bad habits, and over time mi...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #6 LANDING MECHANICS: Proper jump and landing mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue. It is important to note the athlete lands with a straight back, hips square, hip in line with the knee, knee line with the 2nd toes, hips slightly flexed, and the knees bent falling over the midfoot not past the toes as seen in picture bellow. This is easily trained during your normal stick drills, as war...
PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT #7 LOADING MECHANICS UPPER BODY: Proper loading mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue. It is important to note the athlete loads the wrist with the fingers facing forward, maintaining the arches of the hand, the antecubital fossa ("smiley face") points inward as if "kissing each other", elbows are straight but not locked out and shoulder blades are cinched up to the rib cage (no winging) as seen in figure 11. Figure 12 sho...
