In part 1 of the 9 keys to dealing with groin strains in hockey players, we talked about the assessment. A quick recap, 4 keys to a good assessment for groin strains arePositional Assessment Movement Assessment Hip Assessment Kinetic Chain assessment If you haven’t checked out part 1 with keys 1-4 yet, you can find […]
Hockey is known as the fastest game on earth. And it continues to get faster. The sheer speed and physicality of the sport puts players at high risk for some serious collisions. Most of the brunt force of these collisions is absorbed by the upper body, particularly the shoulders. Unfortunately, this makes the shoulder prone […]
From a performance standpoint, hockey has always been a few steps behind baseball. This applies with everything from performance tracking technology to analytics. Although this might not seem ideal from an injury prevention standpoint, some tendencies in player development leading to injury may be more common in baseball than in hockey. For now. If hockey […]
Hip and groin injuries are common in change of direction sports. Hockey in particular, has a high percentage of hip and groin issues. Worner et al (2019) have shown that >50% of hockey players suffer from hip and groin issues over the course of a season and those who reported worse long term hip and groin function tended to […]
Skating mechanics can have great implications on a player’s performance. With the increased focus on speed, players are always looking for ways to improve their ability to skate to compliment their off-ice speed training. Research in skating biomechanics has demonstrated differences between high caliber and low caliber players skating mechanics (Renaud et al, 2017; Buckeridge […]
I often see people who lack hip internal rotation, which can play a factor in lots of issues. But I have always been apprehensive in prescribing hip internal rotation stretches. I think part of the reason is that I’ve struggled with hip IR myself, being a hockey player, as most do. I’ve tried stretching but […]
Femoroacetabular impingement has recently become an epidemic in youth sports. We are starting to see more and more young athletes suffering from groin/hip pain caused by these abnormal bony changes. At this point, this condition is still poorly understood in terms of cause and prevention. But the only way to find the root cause of […]
Unfortunately, overuse hip labrum injuries are very common in cutting sports. The cause is generally unknown. However, I came across this flow chart recently that I felt did a very good job in describing the process of hip labrum overuse injuries. There are typically 2 mechanisms, abnormal morphology and repetitive low load on the hip, […]
This week’s post is actually a guest post I wrote for Dean Somerset’s blog. If you don’t follow Dean, you totally should. He is the master of hip training and he’s also Canadian! And the man can squat LOW!! Click the link here to check out the post, and make sure you check Dean out on […]
The change from stand up to butterfly style for goalies was revolutionary for the game of hockey. This allowed the goalie to cover the lower part of the net just by dropping down to both knees and flaring out their ankles (hip internal rotation) making it harder for players to get one past the netminders. […]
