How Your Ankles Could Be Causing Your Knee Injury

I have my first guest blog post for you.

It is a good one.

It is from Eric Cressey.

Get over to the blog and read Eric Cressey's blog post:

==> How ankles can cause knee injuries

In the blog post, Eric goes through:

- What a lack of ankle mobility can lead to
- One of the main causes of poor ankle mobility you find in the hip
- Looking at the research, what does it say about a lack of ankle mobility
- Wonder what happens to the back when your client has poor ankle flexibility
- How does ankle mobility affect athletes

=> How ankles can cause knee injuries

Make sure you leave a comment on the blog post. Eric will be reading and replying to them.

Rick Kaselj, MS

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Registered Kinesiologist Specializing in Injury Rehabilitation
Surrey, BC, Canada
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Knee Injury Exercise Webinar

This Thursday I am doing a webinar on knee injury exercises.

I plan on chatting about:
- Why you should be letting the knees pass the toes
- Why you should be getting all you knee injury clients doing leg extension machine exercises
- Why you should be getting your knee injury clients doing full squats

To reserve your spot visit:

==> ACL Injury Exercises

Plus I got some great news from the College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia, they have approved the webinar for 1.0 CE/PD.

Make sure you register for the webinar today because tomorrow it goes up $20, reserve your spot here:

==> ACL Injury Exercises

I look forward to seeing you on the webinar.

Rick Kaselj, MS

P.S. - If you are registered for this Thursday's knee injury exercise webinar, I will send out details on Tuesday.

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Rick Kaselj – rkaselj@HealingThroughMovement.com
Registered Kinesiologist Specializing in Injury Rehabilitation
Surrey, BC, Canada
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Surrey Personal Trainer Says Exercise Increases Knee Cartilage

This is very exciting research result.

The challenge is to educate doctors and health care professionals on what vigorous exercise is and that it has greater benefit than risk if supervised by an exercise professional.

Vigorous Physical Activity May Improve Knee Joint Structures

September 28, 2007 - Laurie Barclay, MD

Vigorous physical activity benefits knee cartilage in patients without knee injury, and walking reduces the risk for bone marrow lesions in the knee, according to the results of a study reported in the September 28 Online First issue and will appear in the October 15 print issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.

"Vigorous physical activity appears to have a beneficial effect on knee articular cartilage in healthy, community-based adults with no history of knee injury or disease," the study authors write. "Regular walking reduces the risk of bone marrow lesions in the knee. This study provides further support for a beneficial effect of physical activity for diseases associated with aging and suggests that exercise that is good for the heart is also good for the knees."

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Registered Kinesiologist Specializing in Injury Rehabilitation
Langley, BC, Canada
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Olympics Opion on Female ACL Injuries

International Olympic Committee Position Statement on ACL Injuries in Female Athletes

IOC Consensus Statement Non-contact ACL injury in the female athlete IOC headquarters, Lausanne, Coubertin Room, 7-9 February, 2008. The incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury remains high,especially in the young, athletic population 14-19 years of age.

The incidence of non-contact ACL tears as a function of gender shows that female subjects have
a much higher incidence in some sports such as basketball,netball and team handball versus male subjects. In spite of the fact that some successful ACL injury prevention programmes have been introduced, the ACL injury continues to be the largest single problem in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

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