A “Twisted” Injury Plague
So someone sent me this article talking about how many pro baseball players are going out with Oblique strain injuries:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txtheinjurybug
My guess us that many will pontificate on why these are all happening all of a sudden and there will be undoubtedly be endless mindless references to the “core”. What many fail to realize is that the obliques work as part of a “system” and that trying to treat or train one isolated part will be palliative at best. The obliques work in concert with a host of other muscle groups, most notably the adductors and most often in the Transverse (rotation) and Frontal (lateral) planes.
Until you can re-educate the player on how to properly sequence these patterns as a unit with respect to the above, these injuries usually end up being recurring or simply traveling to another body part.