Understanding Muscle Injuries
- Structure of Muscles and repair process of tissue injury
- Types of muscle injuries and stages of repair
- Injury Classification and Grading
- Learn Pollock et al's updated muscle injury grading system from old grade 1-3 to the new severity and location grading system Grade 0-4 a/b/c
- Muscle Injury Location Grading System
- Review the new a/b/c location specific aspects of the new muscle injury grading system by Pollock et al
- Hamstring Injuries
- Learn how the architecture of hamstring fascicles relate to the strength and structure association with strong or vulnerable hamstrings
- Factors Contributing Towards Muscle Tears
- Identify the risk factors that you as a trainer or coach can modify to prevent injury and strategies you will need to consider to mitigate the risks you can't modify
- Characteristics of Hamstring Injuries
- Learn how the anatomy of hamstring muscles, their structure and function can make the hamstring vulnerable to specific classifications of tear
- High Speed Running
- Understand the biomechanic stress that high speed running puts on the hamstring when the legs are in terminal swing and full hip extension during running
Who is this Muscle Injury Course Great For?
Lecture 1: Muscle Structure and Function
Understand the basic underlying structure of muscle fibres and how that relates to injury and healing and the function of muscle fibres and how they act when damaged.
Lecture 2: Injury Classification and grading
An expansion on the basic classification of muscle injuries and an introduction to the use of a new more detailed classification that outlines both severity and location of the muscle tear. This can then lead to more accurate recovery timelines
Lecture 3: Muscle Injury Location Grading System
An expansion on the basic classification of muscle injuries and an introduction to the use of a new more detailed classification that outlines both severity and location of the muscle tear. This can then lead to more accurate recovery timelines
Lecture 4: Hamstring Injuries
One the most frequently injured muscles as a result of a tear is the hamstring muscle. Ollie dives deep into the physiology of a muscle tear with hamstrings as the example
Lecture 5: Risk Factors Contributing Towards Muscle Tears
The difference between muscle physiology of muscles that are;
Short/Weak
Short/Strong
Long/Weak
Long/Strong
Lecture 6: Classification of hamstring injuries
How to apply the classification of general muscle injuries to specific hamstring muscles and how to start thinking about the rehabilitation process
Lecture: 7: High speed running
How does high speed running increase our chances of tearing our hamstring, and how this concept of speed and velocity of muscle contraction can be attributed other muscle tears.
What we can do to rehabilitate hamstring injuries and how we should approach a muscle tear rehabilitation programme for any muscle!
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