Langley kinesiologist asks could have Roberto Luongo's groin injury been prevented???

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.

1. 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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STRUCTURED SPORTS KILLS KIDS ATHLETICIM

I came across a short story today in my in box. I believe strongly that children are often pushed to be in just one sport like basketball, football, soccer, hockey in hope by their parents that some how the will be the next Crosby, Bries, Beckham or Bryant. WE HAVE BECOME TOO STRUCTURED AND IT IS KILLING ATHLETICISM IN OUR KIDS.

So everyone knows this is my son having fun running and playing with the agility ladder when he was 1.5years old. We did not force him he just started playing on it and having fun.

Think back to you youth, did you always play organized sports. Yet with our busy lives we are now driving our kids to only structured sporting events. The youth of today is not playing outside as much with their friends they have play dates now. Did you have play dates as a kid? I think Not! You told your mom that you were going over to Mikes or Matt's or Jane's house then going to the school play ground to play soccer, or the back ally to shoot hoops or play street hockey. And all the kids from the neighborhood would show up, some were even a few years older then you right!. So WHY do we do it to our kids.

You might want to call me a hypocrite as I do have parents paying me to train their over structured children. But I will say that we try to break up the structure with them to help them develop better motor patterns and learn how to move first and i encourage all my young athletes to play more that one sport.

And just so you know HOCKEY KIDS are usually the worst coordinated when is comes to running movement patterns and body control. As many of them do so much skating that they are not developing muscle to run and cut directions and move well off the ice also affects them on the ice.
Why well think of this hockey skates lock your heal in so you have no plantar flexion in the foot (foot pointing) and the power come from a sideways 45 degree movement from the hips. so they become hip walkers. So please get your kids playing at least street hockey and some other sports.

Neurologically children develop best when they are learning to move in multiple ways and directions without structure.

Think about the best athletes through out history Pele, Gretzky, Jordan etc. do you think that the became great just by doing structured organized sports and agility drills, and team practices, hell no. They learned on the frozen ponds, the beat up courts and the make shift dirt fields with divots and no shoes and a ball the didn't role true.

So getting children involved in multiple sports will help them develop athleticism and coordination. My favorite sports to expose kids to are Recreational gymnastics develops connection through out the body upper and lower, swimming is a skill that all kids need and develops coordination, soccer develops coordination and fine motor control in the legs unlike any other sport, and running in multiple directions because everyone should learn to run and move with grace.

But more importantly we need to keep encouraging our children to learn to play in unorganized pick up games of hockey, basketball, soccer and other activities because this is where imaginative play happens and real skills are created away from the eyes and ideas of adults. It gives them confidence to try new things and tricks on the field with out the perception that they have failed. Otherwise we will have failed to create athletic individuals of the future.

so here is the story.

"There's no research to suggest that young kids who love their sport will risk burnout, says Joe Baker, a professor of Kinesiology and sports health in York’s Faculty of Health, in a Globe and Mail story Aug. 26 about the impact of year-round sports and the pressure to excel on young athletes.
But even if a child is mentally and physically prepared for a hectic sports schedule, new research suggests throwing a kid's sports eggs in one basket can make him a worse, not better, player.
Baker has been collecting data on athletes considered the best of the best. "Some of the data we have shows they spent a lot more time playing at their sport in an unorganized way," he says. Fewer rules and drills appears to promote a flexibility in the way kids think about problems on the court or rink."

So let your kids play.

I know that the best player I every played with and against played multiple sports had imagination, speed, coordination on the field and that they developed it through play and not through structured drills and agility exercises.

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