ACK noooooooooooooooooooooo, please stop this nightmare.
OK, I'm a die hard Canucks Fan. And seeing roberto luongo limp off the ice was not fun.
If you have been following hockey this last week or even if you have seen high lights or low lights you will know that VANCOVERS great leader and hope to lead us to the promise land and bring home the cup our captain, Bobby Lou, Louie,(Roberto Luongo) is out with a groin strain. He had a MRI on Sunday and I watched the team win last night in a comeback effort in over time against the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 with Stanford in the net.
He is listed as week to week for now. As I read the Vancouver sun yesterday.........
"Luongo was injured at 4:54 of the first period when he kicked out his left pad to stop Philippe Boucher's point shot, then torqued his groin as he adjusted to the puck being deflected to his right. Luongo, still in obvious pain after the game, said he has never had a groin injury.
His durability is legendary. Luongo has averaged 74 games per season the last four years. He said he wasn't sure if the hectic road schedule and Saturday afternoon start time, which deprived him of a morning skate, contributed to the injury. But he participated in an optional practice Friday and sat out Thursday's win, so he should have been fresh.
"There was pretty much a lot of pain there," Luongo said. "Right away I knew it wasn't good. It's very disappointing, frustrating. We've been playing great as a team and I've been really happy with the way my game has been in the last few weeks. It's really disappointing to have something like this happen."
It could be more than that for the Canucks. It could be devastating." read the article at http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/canucks/story.html?id=4150e5b9-cd6d-4777-ba13-69b0f6d193cf
I Personally know the Canucks Strength and Conditioning coach Roger Takahashi, and I know that between him and the Canucks medical team they will put him back together properly stronger then ever to quote the 6 million dollars man's boss Oscar Goldman " we have the technology we can rebuild him". I find it funny that Roberto is also a 6 million dollar man but I digress.
So the Question is could have his groin injury been prevented. I know that "Taki" does an amazing job on preparing each player to be in top form and preventing injuries or getting into better shape and that the Canucks take every step to insure success. Just look at Wellwood and his weight loss and conditioning since the season began.
It is my belief that even with the best preparation injuries still happen especially when your job is to be doing the splits on the ice for 60 minutes trying to stop a little rubber puck. That being said here are some of the stretches and exercises that I would do to help prevent goalie groin injuries. I will post a video on these by Friday so you can see them.
Stretches and exercises to help prevent groin injuries.
Undulating stretches are a type of dynamic stretch technique designed to open up the Fascial tissue and increase overall flexibility.
- Glute stretch as a Fascial Stretch Therapist we see many athletes and goalies included that are extremely tight in the Glutes, having a tight but can be a good thing but not when you are trying to decrease groin injuries. The glute are on the opposite side of the hip as the groin therefore if you have tight glutes your groin will not have the same ROM it should have. So we need to stretch these out first to open up the Fascial lines.
- start on the ground in a 4 point position rock side to side. leaning in to the hips.
- next stretch turn over on to your butt place your hands behind you, your knees should be bent and your legs spread apart rock you knees to one side until your knees touch one way then go to the other side repeat 10 times.
2. hip flexor stretches OK glutes are stretched out now for the QL and hip flexors. As these also limit movement.
- start in a lunge position and lean your hip forward until you feel a stretch in the front of your hip. Then lean in towards the side with the bent knee keep moveing slowly like a wave as you make your body flow past the front knee and come back to the start lunge position.
3. modified hockey stretch for the glutes you all know it but here are a few modifications first place you leg that you are stretching on the ground and sit up higher then slowly lean in to wards the ground with your chest and then slowly come back to the top. this will help open the hips up more.
4. Groin stretches. sitting against a wall tuck your feet in towards you and let the groin stretch out
OK SO now you have to come back this week and check out our video on these stretches.
Exercise will be tomorrow.
in health Paul
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