IMPROVE YOUR ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE AND PREVENT INJURY
Free of cost!!!!! Thanks to Ben Hogan Sports Therapy Institute and the Girls Can
Jump USA Outreach Program
•When: December 11, 2004, UTA Activities Building
8:30-11:30 am Power Point Presentation
Demonstrations and explanations
Open Discussion
1:30-4:30 pm Training Session
•What: Advanced Performance Training
Knee and Ankle Injury Prevention
•Presented by: Laura Ramus PT ATC, Head Athletic Trainer and Strength and
Conditioning Coach, WNBA Detriot Shock, and Sports Medicine Manager, St. John
Hospital System.
•Girls should come prepared to participate in appropriate workout clothes.
•For more information contact Joni McCoy jonimccoy@yahoo.com
tel (817)343-5369
What Does Research Say?
Caraffa, Cerulli and Projetti report that the three main noncontact injury mechanisms are planting and cutting, straight-knee stopping, and one-step landing with the knee hyperextended.
"Ankle Support"
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What Does Research Say?
In one of the few studies to probe for biomechanical differences, Caraffa, Cerulli, and Projetti recently analyzed knee joint kinematics during the sidestep cutting maneuver in 16 men and 14 women. They found greater intra-subject variability in knee rotation in women than men. However, they determined that this resulted from the women's lesser experience with cutting relative to the men, not from inherent differences, and they concluded that differences in ACL injury risk are not likely to be explained by differences in knee motion during cutting ( though their study didn't actually analyze ACL injury risk). The authors concluded that skill-specific training would increase experience levels and possibly decrease variation in knee joint kinematics.
•Land on the ball of your foot and sink into your heel.
•Flex at the hips, knees and ankles.
•Maintain a straight back-neutral spine position.
•Maintain chest over knees and knees over second toe.
Laura Ramus, P.T., A.T.C. is Head Athletic Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Coach for the WNBA's Detroit Shock. Since 1994, she has also served as the Manager of Sports Medicine at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. Her articles have been syndicated in newspapers throughout the USA, and can be found in each edition of Women's Basketball Magazine, and weekly in the Detroit News. Check out Laura's recent columns, published by the Detroit News, -click here!
8:30-11:30 am Power Point Presentation
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