Brychanus
* Ace Member *
Hey DGCR,
I've begun to notice a lot of patterns between movements and discomfort, pain, or injury in my own development and others' reports. I thought a dedicated thread could help collect researched and anecdotal reports as such. This post was triggered because as my motion pattern has gotten better, little differences in motion seem to reveal important patterns, and sometimes the cause of pain can be far away from where it's located. Using those signals as cues to massage your form is important and can save you from serious acute or chronic injuries. I think it's especially important as you gain power in a swing, but it's still pretty "raw" and variable like mine currently is.
E.g., my favorite current example involves the Drive Phase/leg sets up the plant and all the swing to follow. In the 3-step pump thread Sw22 made a callback to lacking calf flexion in the Drive foot can cause injuries in the throwing shoulder - an effect very far up the chain from the earliest part of the Drive leg action.
I also noticed that poor posture and/or muscle mechanics in the Drive phase can lead to:
-Localized tightness in the drive-leg side sacroiliac region (where the pelvis and tailbone connect), possibly due to "dragging" the rear leg weight.
-Compensatory action in the plant leg action, leading to calf cramping and more jerk-like plant leg action overall. I found that this occurs from coming in from too high in the drive phase into the plant without enough "spring" off the drive leg - the compensatory action is the plant leg gets too much vertical decompression, and compensates with a "jerkier" action. This is hard on front hip and front leg overall.
-Coming in too horizontally into the plant from too low, and shanking drives up w/ some elbow tension
-Coming in too 'diagonally' into the plant, spraying wide w/ some shoulder issues.
Each time I bump into one of these "referred" pains, I stop and back up to work on the cause, which is typically somewhere in the chain well prior to the pain.
Please share any observations & references!
I've begun to notice a lot of patterns between movements and discomfort, pain, or injury in my own development and others' reports. I thought a dedicated thread could help collect researched and anecdotal reports as such. This post was triggered because as my motion pattern has gotten better, little differences in motion seem to reveal important patterns, and sometimes the cause of pain can be far away from where it's located. Using those signals as cues to massage your form is important and can save you from serious acute or chronic injuries. I think it's especially important as you gain power in a swing, but it's still pretty "raw" and variable like mine currently is.
E.g., my favorite current example involves the Drive Phase/leg sets up the plant and all the swing to follow. In the 3-step pump thread Sw22 made a callback to lacking calf flexion in the Drive foot can cause injuries in the throwing shoulder - an effect very far up the chain from the earliest part of the Drive leg action.
I also noticed that poor posture and/or muscle mechanics in the Drive phase can lead to:
-Localized tightness in the drive-leg side sacroiliac region (where the pelvis and tailbone connect), possibly due to "dragging" the rear leg weight.
-Compensatory action in the plant leg action, leading to calf cramping and more jerk-like plant leg action overall. I found that this occurs from coming in from too high in the drive phase into the plant without enough "spring" off the drive leg - the compensatory action is the plant leg gets too much vertical decompression, and compensates with a "jerkier" action. This is hard on front hip and front leg overall.
-Coming in too horizontally into the plant from too low, and shanking drives up w/ some elbow tension
-Coming in too 'diagonally' into the plant, spraying wide w/ some shoulder issues.
Each time I bump into one of these "referred" pains, I stop and back up to work on the cause, which is typically somewhere in the chain well prior to the pain.
Please share any observations & references!
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