You outside playing soccer with your mates, and you try to cross the ball across the pitch with your right leg. Throughout the rest of the game you feel a burning sensation in the groin area. The next morning, you try to go for a run on the break of dawn and half way through your run you have to stop because your right hip still haves that burning sensation from the night before. Morning comes again, it’s a school day and now you are having pain in your upper leg as well as your right hip and now the pain is so much you can barely now your right leg.…
The knee is a very crucial structure in the human body. It plays an extremely essential role in human movement. The weight that is put through the knee at one time can be over extravagant and the way it takes the weight and controls the body is truly unbelievable and fascinating. It carries the weight forwards and backwards while walking, and upward and downwards while jumping.…
These forces with the addition of the quadriceps force significantly reduce the force needed to result in an ACL injury…
The structure most likely injured with the direct blow of the tibial tuberosity resulting in presentation of the lower limb (figure 1) would be the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). The presented picture shows the tibia being pushed back posteriorly. The PCL, within the knee joint, prevents posterior translation of the tibia bone related to the femur bone (Moore et., al, 2014). If the PCL is torn, then the tibia can move backward too much leading to instability of the knee. The knee joint serves as a hinge joint that connects the femur to the tibia allowing for flexion, extension, and minimal internal/external rotation.…
The first movement is picking up your left foot slightly off the ground and placing the…
M1 locate the bones, joints, movement types and muscles used during a range of sporting activities: Example 1 – Andy Murray tennis serve. The Andy Murray serve begins with him lining up at a 45 degree angle to the baseline. His legs are a little more than body width apart with the left foot about 30 degrees off the line. This stance means that he will be using a big turn of the whole body to assist in providing some of the power to his serve.…
To get a good kick in the football the player needs a strong momentum. You use it all to run fast and your momentum is working your feet to kick it. When you really want your momentum to go to your feet so it can you feet in motion. This can show why footballs don’t always go the distance they are planned to go, it could be a player’s momentum and it might not be enough motion for the ball. Another reason could be if someone grabbed your leg your momentum would instantly stop.…
Wind Up The wind up is the first key phase of the throw. It occurs when the athlete positions themselves side on to the target. The main purpose of this phase is so the body can get into a rhythm which will make it easier for the throwing action to be more efficient. At the start of the wind up the athletes feet should be shoulder width apart and should be side on to the target.…
This is where your knee comes up and stores potential energy. Phase 2 is the stride. This is where you reach the foot forward and make contact with the ground to change the potential energy into mechanical energy. Phase 3 is the cocking of the arm to reach maximum external rotation of the shoulder. This is done to reach maximum power and the foot that was planted in phase 2 begins action of the kinetic chain.…
Precision of Pitching In the game of baseball, the pitcher is one of the most vital players on the team. He must follow a precise sequence of steps to throw the pitch the way he had intended to. The best way for a pitcher to throw hard and throw strikes is to choose the proper stance and pitch, execute the pitch, and follow through into an athletic fielding position.…
After stepping off with your left foot your right foot will flow forward as it pushes on the ground. The same rules apply, gravity is pushing the marcher down and the ground is pushing back. Same with friction, friction keeps the movement steady and momentum determining how fast and how far the movement will take the marcher. This time there is force. As stated, instead of a lift there is a push of the foot giving more momentum to the movement.…
The next movement is extending at the knee joints. When I extend the knee joints my quadriceps and gastrocnemii allow me to jump high off the ground. As my feet are leaving the ground I start to make my next movement with my shoulders and wrists. I start to swing the rope to the other side of my body so I can make my next movement. My shoulder joint uses circumduction to perform this part of the skill.…
Snapping Hip Syndrome Pain and Pain Management Snapping hip syndrome is often seen in dancers, since dancers are constantly standing perfectly straight and resisting the natural posture of their body. It is a condition in which the dancer or athlete hears/ feels a snapping or popping sensation in the hip joint. For the majority of the population, snapping hip syndrome does not cause pain or discomfort, but in a sport where the athlete is constantly manipulating the hip joint, such as in dance, it may cause some pain or discomfort consequently leading to an interference with performance. If the dancer does feel pain or discomfort from this condition some suggested methods of treatment to reduce it include: reducing or modifying activity, applying…
The required muscles will lengthen so it would generate more force and momentum when concentrically contracting in their antagonist muscles of the phase. During this phase the knee joint is slight more flexed from the stance phase. It causes concentric contractions of the quadriceps muscles (rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and the vastus medialis). The foot is not going into full plantar flexion but the preparatory phase is where it starts. They’re many muscles that bring the foot into plantar flexion.…
My steps inched closer to the ball until my plant foot reached the left side of the ball. In that moment, every sound turned to nothing, my kicking leg swung forward in slow motion, and feeling of my own heartbeat felt as though it was about to beat right out of my chest. The contact with the ball and my right foot was weak. My own knowledge of how to properly kick a soccer ball had skipped out of my mind. My foot skimmed over the top of the ball, causing it to slowly dribble to the right side of the goal.…