Do your athletes land like this?

Do your athletes land from jumping like this?  Well if they do, you just identified an athlete with a higher risk of a non-contact knee injury, particularly ACL tear.  Male or female, it does not matter but females will display this kind of knee posture more often then males and this is one of the reasons why females are 2-8x greater risk of a non-contact knee injury.

What can we do about this?

• Get stronger using movements like squats, lunges and single leg squats with great technique (i.e. keep the knees out!).

Be Well,
Mike Reid