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  • 07/20/2015 at 3:40 pm in reply to: How does a non-contact knee injury happen? #76108
    AvatarKaren Santamaria
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    Thank you Kaitlin. Can you explain a little bit about the tolerance level of tissues so I can have a picture about what was happening in his knee? So if, hypothetically, you take a five year old child and they land with their knees in from one jump, does that stretch the ACL in a certain way, though not tearing it? Then if it becomes a habit it will keep stretching and straining it? If that’s the case, would that also mean that his next bad landing – regardless of time frame – would cause this to happen?

    Again, sorry for all the questions. It helps me explain it to other people.
    07/19/2015 at 3:52 pm in reply to: pistol squat and other Unilateral Movements, good or bad? #76104
    AvatarKaren Santamaria
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    I’m not an MWOD representative, but I know they definitely subscribe to unilateral exercises. In fact, two of their lower body archetypes are unilateral (lunge and pistol). If you think about it, walking is unilateral. So unless walking is bad, then unilateral movements are not only fine to do, but extremely important.

    You are correct about putting your hip in an unstable position… if you are not doing them right. Whenever we load up one side, your body naturally rotates away from that side (ie. if you stand on your right foot, your body rotates to the left). That rotation causes a bunch of compromising positions from your ankle all the way up to your shoulders. What we have to do is resist that rotation while training. If we can focus on that, they movements are not only safe, but they make us stronger in a way that bilateral movements don’t quite replicate.
    01/30/2014 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Another (possible) stress fracture question #74000
    AvatarKaren Santamaria
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    I’ll talk to her about warm-up or cool down at her practices. Here, we warm-up and cool down. I’ll check out those MWOD episodes too. Thanks.

    From what I have seen, she goes pretty well on ball-of-foot, but I’ll keep an eye on landing on the toes too much. It costs too much money to get an xray here and she doesn’t have time to go back home to get it done either. Like I said, she’s in a weird situation. Are there any specific Marc Pro pad placements that could buy some time? What about duration?
    Thank you for the responses though!
    01/29/2014 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Another (possible) stress fracture question #73977
    AvatarKaren Santamaria
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    I kind of agree. But the only thing is that the team doctors don’t seem to be helping all that much. In the previous occurrences, she was placed in a boot with no movement and a whole lot of ice – as well as being isolated from the team. She’s in kind of a weird situation.

    As far as the running technique goes, I would be surprised if that is an issue. She is currently about 1.5 frames into Pose when she is fresh – and only slight supination. And while I’m sure it breaks down a little towards the end of her race, it still doesn’t take her long to reach Pose (a major improvement from last season). Her indoor track has near right-angle turns, so that obviously does not help. Also, this recent issue started after we did about 40 broad jumps in our workout – which made her shins tight. Then the next morning she had a hard practice and afterwards is when it started hurting bad I believe. We did shin mashing/smearing, lacrosse ball on bottom of foot, calf mashing, heel cord whacking, foot smearing, ankle distraction, Voodoo band, and Marc Pro. Out of all of those, Voodoo and Marc Pro probably give the most relief, but then she aggravates it again at practice.
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