Newer Female Wrestlers, Make The Connection, Strengthen Your Hamstrings, Lessen Knee Injuries
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June 15, 2024,
Think about it.
We mean, really think about it.
If you’ve ever torn one, and some of the former high school football players in our circle have, an injured hamstring is incredibly painful to perform on. Almost impossible.
Let alone walk on.
Yet, to perform at the highest level, especially in fully competitive female grappling, you need your hamstrings to be in top form.
In our industry, a girl with some of the most beautiful, nicely developed hamstrings, is Xena of England.
When we purchased and watched her wrestle at the great Femwrestle Events in Germany, she looked amazing. She clearly has some of the most beautiful feminine muscle thighs and hamstrings in our industry.
If you look that great, it is best to think ahead to protect those hamstrings from injury.
There are so many muscles to focus on in your training as a female wrestler. All vital and pertinent to what you are trying to accomplish.
In human anatomy, a hamstring is any one of the three posterior thigh muscles between the hip and the knee.
The hamstrings cross and act upon two joints – the hip and the knee – and as such they are termed biarticular muscles.
The hamstrings play a crucial role in many daily activities such as walking, running, jumping, and controlling some movement in the gluteus. In walking, they are most important as an antagonist to the quadriceps in the deceleration of knee extension.
A common running injury in several sports, excessive stretch of a hamstring results from extensive hip flexion while the knee is extended.
During sprinting, a hamstring injury may occur from excessive muscle strain during eccentric contraction late in the leg swing phase.
The overall incidence of a hamstring injury in sports and professional dancers is about two per 1000 hours of performance. In some sports, a hamstring injury occurs at the incidence of 19% of all sports injuries, and results in an average time loss from competition of 24 days.
That’s the technical stuff.
Let’s take a practical look at strengthening your hamstrings which helps prevent your knees from developing problems.
Let’s go online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3v_leyDIE
This luminary is an exceptional teacher. Here is her message:
“Hello, and welcome! I’m Caroline Girvan, Certified Personal Trainer, MNU Certified Nutritionist, and Pre and Postnatal Specialist. My story began in my actual home in 2020, where it was just me, my dumbbells, and my phone. Fast forward, and now we are over 2 million strong!
Now, I’m also excited to welcome you to my new digital home, CGX. With exclusive workouts and fresh content, it’s a space where we can explore, learn, challenge, and build a stronger body and mind together.
As a mother, ultra runner, triathlete, and someone striving to be the best version of myself, I’m passionate about sharing my journey with you. I hope you’ll find it inspiring as you navigate your own path.”
Sounds great. We mean it. You should check her out.
Here is a related press release that we thought would be beneficial to a female grappler, wanted to strengthen her lower body and protect those knees.
Learn and enjoy!
Stronger Thigh Muscles May Prevent Knee Replacement Surgery
News provided by
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Nov 27, 2023, 05:00 ET
CHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Stronger quadriceps muscles, relative to the hamstrings, may lower the risk of total knee replacement, according to research being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Researchers said the findings could inform strength-training programs for people with advanced arthritis in the knee.
Advanced knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and disability worldwide. In the U.S. alone, 14 million adults have symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, and more than half of those diagnosed are projected to eventually undergo total knee replacement surgery.
While stronger muscle groups are generally understood to be associated with a lower rate of total knee replacement, their relative importance is not well established. Of particular interest is the relationship between the extensors and the hamstrings, the two most important muscle groups in the knee.
The extensors, the muscles on the front of the thigh commonly referred to as the quadriceps, are the strongest muscle group in the body and have essential influence on gait, other activities and biomechanics. The muscles around the back of the thigh known as the hamstrings are responsible for extension of the hip and flexion of the knee, making them equally essential for physical activity.
“The two muscle groups act as counter forces, and the balance between them enables a wide range of activities while protecting the knee joint,” said study lead author Upasana Upadhyay Bharadwaj, M.D., from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). “An imbalance, in addition to other factors, leads to a change in the biomechanics resulting in the progression of osteoarthritis.”
Dr. Upadhyay Bharadwaj and colleagues evaluated thigh muscle volume in 134 participants from the Osteoarthritis Initiative, a nationwide study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. They compared 67 patients who underwent total knee replacement of a single knee with 67 control participants who had not undergone knee replacement. The cases and controls were matched for variables including age and gender.
The researchers obtained 3T MRI of the thigh at the time of surgery. They also evaluated MRI findings from two years and four years before the surgery. They used a previously trained deep-learning model to segment and compute volumes of the muscles of the thigh—measures that are tedious to compute manually.
Comparing patients who had total knee replacement with the control group, a higher ratio of quadriceps to hamstring volume was significantly associated with lower odds of total knee replacement. Higher volumes of hamstrings and gracilis, a long, thin muscle on the inside of the thigh, were also linked with lower odds of total knee replacement.
“Our study shows that in addition to strong muscles individually, larger extensor muscle groups—relative to hamstring muscle groups—are significantly associated with lower odds of total knee replacement surgery in two to four years,” Dr. Upadhyay Bharadwaj said.
The study findings have implications for both the interpretation of imaging exams and clinical management. The results suggest that training programs that strengthen the quadriceps in relation to the hamstrings may be beneficial.
“Although we presume that overall muscle volume is important as a surrogate marker for muscle strength, the ratio, hence the balance, between extensor and hamstring muscles may be more important and significantly associated with lower odds of total knee replacement,” Dr. Upadhyay Bharadwaj said.
Although the study focused on people with arthritis, the findings may also help inform strength training for a wider segment of the population.
“While these results are essential for targeted therapy in a population at risk for osteoarthritis, even the general public can benefit from our results to preventively incorporate appropriate strengthening exercises,” Dr. Upadhyay Bharadwaj said.
Co-authors are John A. Lynch, Ph.D., Gabby B. Joseph, Ph.D., and Thomas M. Link, M.D., Ph.D.
Note: Copies of RSNA 2023 news releases and electronic images will be available online at RSNA.org/press23.
RSNA is an association of radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists promoting excellence in patient care and health care delivery through education, research and technologic innovation. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. (RSNA.org)
Editor’s note: The data in these releases may differ from those in the published abstract and those actually presented at the meeting, as researchers continue to update their data right up until the meeting. To ensure you are using the most up-to-date information, please call the RSNA Newsroom at 1-312-791-6610.
For patient-friendly information on musculoskeletal imaging, visit RadiologyInfo.org.
SOURCE Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
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