Listen to the podcast of Kellie talking to our rowing research colleagues on managing low back pain in rowing.
Science of Rowing interview
GRowingBODIES spoke with Will Ruth of the Science of Rowing collaboration about our BJSM Epidemiology of Rowing injury and illness over two Olympiads research project. You can listen to the interview online.
The Science of Rowing is a resource for coaches and rowers of all levels. Each month, Will and co-authors, Blake Gourley and Joe DeLeo read across dozens of academic journals for rowing-relevant research, deliver summaries and takeaways from the most relevant articles, and discuss practical applications via audio roundtables, and supporting bonus content.
Subscriptions to the Science of Rowing in November are being donated to “A Most Beautiful Thing” Inclusion (AMBTI) Fund. This is a new organization created in partnership with the George Pocock Rowing Foundation and Arshay Cooper to support education, scholarship, and mentorship programs to get more kids rowing on the water, focusing on non-traditional communities and communities of color where youth face barriers to participation in the sport.
This was a great opportunity for us to collaborate with the @ScienceofRowing to get more @GRowingBODIES into rowing and to keep them rowing injury free!
Doc, Doc, Goose take two
It was Kellie’s turn to talk to the Doc, Doc, Goose team and in this episode she discusses not only her research interests in preventing injury in rowers, but her career and practice philosophy.
Doc Doc Goose podcast
Want to know more about injuries and illness in elite rowing? What injuries cost the most training time? How common is illness? How many training days does back or rib pain cost a rower?
Dr Lari has discussed the findings of the recent British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) article https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/25/bjsports-2019-101402.info on the epidemiology of injury and illness in Australian rowers of two Olympiads with the crew at Doc, Doc, Goose.
Dr Rod Siegel (Sports Scientist), Dr Alice MacNamara (Sport & Exercise Medicine Doctor) and Bill Tait (Olympic Rowing Coach) have a fantastic rowing, science and medicine podcast and we explore the research project, the findings and what it all means for rowers and coaches in non technical language.
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Yoga is GREAT for GRowingBODIES
Youth often begin rowing right when they start to grow. Girls often have their major growth spurt from 12-14 years and boys from 14-16 years. Growing results in a loss of relative flexibility. Imagine how much tighter the hamstring muscle, running down the back of the thigh, becomes as a young boy grows 15cm in height over a 12 month period! Growth also results in a reduction in relative strength and young athletes often struggle to gain movement movement control of a growing body that is changing rapidly. Often boys gain regain relative strength a little quicker than girls and this is likely due to the hormonal changes that occur with growth and puberty.
Yoga has a great mix of benefits that can benefits the growing rower;
- long hold stretches that are especially focused around the hips
- holding of poses that require trunk control and hip & shoulder girdle strength
- meditation and focus on breath that can assist with achieving a state of calm during a difficult period of body changes
Dog pose is a perfect example of an exercise of specific benefit to rowers. The position that the rower gets into is not too different from the rock-over position required just after the finish of the drive. Without hamstring length the rower will collapse into a poor pelvic posture at the end of the drive or may not be able to tilt the pelvis to upright during rock-over resulting in a position of a less upright pelvis coming into the catch.
Reduced ability to control the pelvis has been linked to the development of low back pain in rowers and should be a major focus for injury prevention in the young developing rower.
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