| Biomechanical assessment
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| | the foot (pronate it), bend the knee
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| Running with an injury or over-training?
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| | more, or drop the hip more. Pronation
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| Often it is best to go back to basics
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| | will increase the load on the leg (see
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| Injuries can affect us all regardless of
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| | 'Tight calves' section), and dropping the
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| age, sex or ability. But can we manage or
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| | hip will increase the the spasm to the
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| limit the number of times we get injured?
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| | glutes / piriformis 'prophylactically',
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| We can by going back to basics.
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| | in other words preventatively, (and also
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| But we are not talking about fitness
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| | if necessary), then we are helping to
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| levels and stretching. Instead we mean
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| | reduce all of the above.
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| back to biomechanics.
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| | • Assess yourself
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| By assessing, on a regular basis, your
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| | AS a result of one of the largest studies
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| biomechanics you can help eliminate and
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| | in biomechanics by Galileo Health and
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| prevent a number of injuries and problems
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| | distributed by HumanLab Sports we can all
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| that athletes suffer from. The body
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| | benefit from assessing our biomechanics,
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| compensating for weak links can cause
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| | in the comfort of our own home. You do
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| restriction that in turn can cause pain
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| | not need to be a clinician as they have
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| and injury.
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| | developed a CD ROM software program that
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| Calf and hamstring injuries are commonly
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| | helps you assess yourself with the
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| caused by a tight sciatic nerve. The
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| | software prescribing the exercises needed
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| muscles provide a protective spasm to the
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| | to remove the problems and in turn
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| nerve during locomotion and if stretched
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| | prevent or normalise the body from
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| or loaded sufficiently the muscles can
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| | developing them in the future.
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| spasm enough to cause themselves to tear
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| | As part of the program is injury
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| - or cramp up - which can feel like a
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| | prevention the CD takes you through a
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| tear. By mobilising the nerve it releases
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| | series of core stability work educating
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| tension in the muscles and reduces the
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| | you on how to engage your core and to
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| likelihood of this event.
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| | engage it while doing peripheral
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| • Tight calves
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| | movements, so it becomes second nature to
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| TIGHT calves can cause over pronation.
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| | you when running.
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| The dorsi-flexion (moving the ankle
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| | It finishes off with the final section on
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| upwards) is not available from the ankle
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| | the trunk and torso exercises.
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| joint due to the tight calves, so it has
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| | • Benefits of biomechanics
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| to come from the sub talar joint. It
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| | SOME athletes out there might not feel
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| comes as part of the pronation mechanism
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| | the need to help prevent a problem they
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| though and so increases the amount of
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| | don't feel they have. So let's look
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| pronation as well. This causes shin
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| | briefly at some of the other benefits
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| related injuries as well as knee and
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| | biomechanics has on your performance. A
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| Achilles problems.
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| | tight sciatic nerve or tight piriformis
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| Remember that tight calves are often from
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| | (hip) can affect your stride length, your
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| a tight sciatic nerve, so by mobilising
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| | knee drive and your power output.
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| the nerve, we can help with preventing
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| | A tight sciatic nerve can affect your
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| and normalise these injuries.
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| | quadriceps output by as much as 15 per
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| The effects our biomechanics have on our
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| | cent. The effect of biomechanics for the
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| body and the vicious circle of injury and
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| | professional athlete and the novice for
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| pain it can cause is shown again when
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| | injury prevention or performance is a
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| discussing your hips and pelvis which are
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| | must have tool. It will help you prevent
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| so important to our running but generally
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| | injuries, enjoy your running and help
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| overlooked until the athlete is in severe
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| | with your performance.
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| pain or in fact injured.
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| | The program used in helping address any
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| • Rotated pelvis
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| | issues you may have now or in the future
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| A ROTATED pelvis can go unnoticed for
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| | is worth having. But it doesn't stop
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| many years until the compensations start
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| | there.
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| to cause problems. Typically a leg length
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| | It can be used as a training guide to
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| discrepancy (LLD) can result from a
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| | indicate that you may be over-training or
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| rotated pelvis and the leg must
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| | that a new technique or training plan is
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| compensate for this. It'll either flatten
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| | causing you problems.
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