As close to 100% or don't get on the track
Track athletes need to be as close to 100% or they won't get on the track. Track is not like football, baseball, or basketball where you can adjust your game to nurse an injury. A track athlete with an injury refuses to run or compete in an event where the winner and loser are separated by 1/100th of a second. When you are injured your body uses most of its energy just to get your body down the track. You have to fight to get your body to do what it can do naturally if it was not injured or out of balance.
Many a track athlete recognizes the feeling of "Rolling." In fact, that is the term used by runners who recognize the full fluid motion of running. All their precious energy is used to accelerate and maintain top speed because their body is balanced. Usually a personal record follows this experience of "rolling." Getting your body ready to run is our specialty...we'll get you "Rolling."
You Need Proper Treatment
Hamstring, quad injuries, hip flexor, and glutial injuries don't just go away. The body's mechanism of repair begins to lay scar tissue down on the fibrous muscles that you use to run fast. Tightness and pain usually accompany such an injury and if not treated properly it becomes a chronic injury that returns every time you push your body to the limit.
Hamstrings Don't Just Tear
In Most cases, there was an imbalance prior to the hamstring injury. Usually, it is because the hips are out of balance or the quad simply overpowered the hamstring group. Injuries like this are preventable. Have you ever seen a runner injure a hamstring? Their leg is usually up and or extending. Next thing you see... they're pulling up.
Now, think about what you've seen. The hip flexors were raising the leg or the quad was extending. The active muscles or movers were the hip-flexors and quads but the hamstring was injured. What does this tell you? This is why athletes come and see us prior to a race.
The same goes for groin injuries. They just don't happen because you decided to sprint on a track one day. As you pushed your body, the muscles that are compensating couldn't stand the intense pressures of carrying the extra stress. Think about it. The groin muscle group serves as a leg stabilizer. They are active in 100% of the movement in a sprint as stabilizers. But when they are helping other muscles or muscle groups the stress is too much. The result is a groin injury. It happened because of compensation not because you ran.
These scenarios are avaoidable. Why pull up or get injured in a race that is for all the marbles? Why lose a scholarship, championship, place on the team, national team status, or Olympic medal when you don't have to. Give us a call. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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