Recently, two of my athletes have been downed with injury and it has encouraged me to analyze the methods in which I train my sports participants as well as the adult populations I train. After much soul searching I came to these conclusions:
1. Injury is inevitable. Prevention is not a certainty, it is only some armor against minor to mid level threats to the body.
2. Pre habilitation exercises have their place, and should be used, but again are not a cure all in and of themselves.
3. The more angles you attack a joint, the better the chance you will stave off injury.
It is often seen that soccer coaches run their athletes into various lower leg overuse injuries, or swim coaches put off a dry land program to swim more.
Bringing new modalities or movement patterns into an overall athletic program will lead to enhanced coordination, muscle/joint synergy, and of course injury prevention
