It’s complicated.
There are few high level competitive gymnasts who wake up in the morning entirely pain free.
A helpful defini:on of a gymnastics injury is “any damaged body part that would interfere with training” …
Read Bill’s new article:
Category: sport medicine
Prohibited Substances and Methods
Via email from FIG:
As every year, we would like to draw your attention to the main anti-doping regulations and documentation recently released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). They will come into force on 1 January 2023.
Sr Europeans – Apparatus Finals
There were a number of serious injuries in the Finals. AA Champion Asia D’Amato on vault, for one.
Read Spencer’s LIVE blog.
Double Layout combinations
I’m impressed with gymnasts using elements into Double Layout.
But punching out of that difficult landing is — for me — too great a risk of Achilles damage.
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practicing pit extraction
Rutgers works with their medical support to practice how to safely remove an injured athlete from a pit.
It’s much more difficult than you might imagine.
NCAA Women’s Injuries 2022
College Gym News maintains an injury list. It’s not 100% comprehensive.
Dave Tilley has been posting a lot of information on College injuries.
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SHIFT online symposium
Shift Movement Science is offering a 3 day event June 10-12, 2022.
30 Speakers.
32 Gymnastics Lectures.
If you register, you’ll get all the notes and presentations 2 weeks in advance. And if you can’t attend LIVE, you can watch instead after the event.
Kamila Valieva – Olympic quads
Amazing. She twists so quickly.
I’m so sorry this historic accomplishment is being overshadowed by why her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, couldn’t prevent Kamila from taking a prohibited substance.
My second question is WHY the IOC doesn’t have a minimum age for all Olympic sports.
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