Today’s New
York Times Sports page had the following article of the increase of hip
injuries in sport
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/sports/01hips.html?_r=1&ref=sports
This is a
quote from the article: “Experts said other factors could be at work in
addition to the overemphasis on leg strength.” Who are these ubiquitous
experts? Have any of them ever been around training and truly understand the demands
of the sport.
I believe
the following quote from the article explains the increase of hip injuries in
athletes today. Chris Powers nails it: “It’s not like workouts have changed all
of a sudden; it doesn’t explain it,” said Christopher Powers, an associate
professor of b
iokinesiology at the
University of
Southern California
. “People and doctors are just more aware of it
diagnostically. We’ve always had hip problems; now we are just finding it
better.” I might add finding it better because we ate looking for it.
Mark Day
Seems to me there may be less training and too much competing but I know I am not the first to say that.
Ken Vick
May be a real trend, but entirely anecdoctal right now. Reminds me of creatine, ab tears, etc… Just like Chris Powers said, maybe no big change we are just recognizing things better. During the creatine scare I was working as a strength coach/athletic trainer and was around a lot of ATCs. It was so clear cut how when they evaluated someone cramping or with a muscle strain they changed from their normal line of questioning and almost went straight to asking did the athlete take creatine. While not unreasonable to question, it became their entire line of questioning. A case of finding what you look for.