
S4 Ep86: Overuse Injuries - The Leg Bone’s Connected to the Foot Bone!
The Cribsiders
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How to Reduce Overuse Injuries
The overarching theme of the visit is overuse right. The recommendation to minimize or try to prevent overuse injuries in general is that you take the athlete's age. A lot of these young athletes who are over training their body significantly and we see a lot of these overuse injuries so it's a hard conversation to have with parents about well your gymnast is training 12 hours a week and this is why they could potentially have more stress fractures, things like that. If an athlete wants to play soccer over the spring and summer season maybe they swim as their other activity because they're using their knees and their feet a lot less. They can also do some upper body core great non-
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