{"id":44,"date":"2008-12-17T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-12-17T06:36:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:36:33","slug":"muscle-strains-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Strains 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In my last post, I spoke of lunging and the stress on the knee joint.\u00a0 Today, I thought I would speak about muscle strains.\u00a0 Keep in mind you strain muscles and sprain ligaments.\u00a0 The most common muscle strains I see are hamstring, quadriceps and groin injuries.<\/p>\n

They typically occur with a deceleration movement in sport or recreational activity.\u00a0 In my experience, I notice that some athletes tend to be more prone to these than others.\u00a0 This particular group of athletes seems to be those with a predominance of fast twitch fibers (more of your sprinters) and those lacking good flexibility and mobility (no surprise there).<\/p>\n

Proper warm-up, strengthening, plyometrics and acceleration\/deceleration training all play a role in preventing these injuries.\u00a0 Recovering from such an injury is often a tricky thing.\u00a0 Athletes often are fearful of pushing the injured tissue 100% (they fear re-injury) and coaches may not sufficiently gauge how long to\u00a0hold the athlete out of full participation.\u00a0 More importantly, the athlete often under reports the pain associated with the injury.\u00a0 I have included a great recovery article HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that gives you 3 R’s to go by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also included a picture of one of my favorite rehab exercises for rehabbing high hamstring strains below.\u00a0 It is the single leg Romanian dead lift and provides n excellent way to elongate the hamstrings functionally.\u00a0 Pain\u00a0or the absence thereof during full range of motion will indicate the relative healing of the injured tissue to date.\u00a0 One should be able to do this equal to the non involved side without pain.<\/p>\n

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RDL - Descent<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I spoke of lunging and the stress on the knee joint.\u00a0 Today, I thought I would speak about muscle strains.\u00a0 Keep in mind you strain muscles and sprain ligaments.\u00a0 The most common muscle strains I see are hamstring, quadriceps and groin injuries. 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