FLO FITNESS

What are we doing to our children?                 I had a conversation with a fellow athletic trainer the other day about the long term effects of specializing our youth athletes so early. I would like to highlight the important take-a-ways from our hour long conversation. -           Sports are still new. Many people may thing I am crazy for saying this but I would like you to really think about how old popular sports are. Just think, there was racial segregation in some sports. The popularity of High School sports is fairly new. 20 years ago, no one really cared if you were a star quarterback on your football team. It was cool, but it didn’t guarantee a free education. Now the stakes are blown out of proportion.   Sports, to some, are the only way they will get to school and for others it will open doors for them that they could not reach academically...

Anyone who deals with clients in pain has heard the following story : “I don’t remember doing anything. I was just walking around the mall and when I got home I couldn’t get off the couch. I was in so much pain.”                 So what is the problem? How does someone go from strolling the mall and feeling great, to not being able to move? Here is an idea! Did anyone ever teach you how to walk?   That’s right; your pain may be coming from the way you walk. Many trainers are missing this part of their assessment.   You can tell a lot about a person by the way they walk. Pain, dysfunction, bad mechanics, mood, aura, etc ,   can all be seen in someone’s gait. So how many trainers out there are doing gait analysis?   I can assure you the answer is, not many.   The next question should be, WHY?              ...