Original Articles

This ‘devolution of knowledge’ is responsible for the spread of misinformation; and; in and of itself; one of many cause – effect sources of the non – contact lower extremity injury epidemic in American sport. 

It is common knowledge, susceptibility to a future hamstring pull/tear rises if the athlete has succumbed to a prior injury. Likewise, if an athlete has suffered an ankle injury. Since the most common injury in sports such as football is an ankle injury – an athlete’s prospects of a career scarred by multiple lower extremity injuries is rather dim.

Squatting with feet inside the pelvis, i.e., ‘ankle squats’; with shins tilting forward as much as possible (see figure and video); strengthens the calf musculature, especially soleus; by a process called reverse – origin – insertion – contraction. The soleus muscle is lengthened under tension; as the shins tilt forward. Subsequently, these muscles pull the shins backwards as they contract. Returning the shins from the tilted disposition acts to straighten knee and hip; as all links are interconnected through ankle, knee and hip joints.

researchers of injury susceptibility of the female athlete in sport focus on the preposterous premise of altering unalterable inherent traits: undulating fluctuation of hormones, mobility of joints, inherent skeletal features, extensibility of ligaments, and so forth, i.e., drawing lines, nature itself refused to draw.  

The basic premise of this exercise: one is to learn the necessary height of lifting in the pull to lift a maximum weight in the classic exercise. The height of lifting needed to fix a weight in either the snatch or the clean is determined for a given athlete. For instance, this was considered to be about sternum height for the snatch.