Saturday 25 April 2009

Kick boxing injury

It's come to the end of another week at Premier Physiotherapy Centre. Today I revied a professional kick-boxer that is preparing for a fight in 4 weeks time. He came to see me 2 weeks ago with a straight forward sports hernia. The normal procedure would be to refer him to Mr Snooks (sports hernia specialist) however he was reluctant to do that as it meant he would miss the fight.

I stopped him doing sit-ups, modified his kicking technique to reduce the load on his groin and gave him a series of core control exercises similar to the ones shown on the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfx24wjcX4Y&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKToTnbfcOE&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W92-ZpTA10Q&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTMUcwduLw&feature=channel

We also used the corex system to increase his core strength and control.

The last week he's been training for 6 hours every day and has no symptoms while training or spiring.

It looks like he will make it through the fight and fingers crosees will win.