Can You Blame Your Bad Knee On Your Period?
Did I catch your attention with that subject?
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The highest at-risk group is adolescent females. Then add to that a sport that has really unpredictable movements in many planes, such as soccer or tennis. Let’s really look at soccer (a hot one) and imagine the plant of one leg so the other can kick. The planted leg is often twisted or torqued. Cleats are on, so the foot/lower leg stay put while the femur rotates with the hip/torso. ACL tear. Fortunately trainers are waking up to the fact that these athletes need to be responsibly conditioned to prepare the body for those movements and to (hopefully) prevent injury. Hormones… well, no control there. Can you imagine? “Sally Sue has to sit the tournament out, she’s pre-menstrual that day”. Yeah… Add to that the ridiculous (over) use of birth control pills and other hormone disruptors (food supply for one, sugar/diet), and it’s no surprise that this stuff happens. Additionally, the Q-angle of our femoral neck as it relates to the knee joint makes us more prone to knee issues overall, not just ACL but also patellofemoral grinding and ITB stuff. Fun! Not. Good for you, Kas, for not poo-pooing the hormone thing. We ARE different. Period. (Ahhh, get it? Sorry…) Look at how pregnancy hormones effect ligments and joint stability! Anyhow, as much as we want to play with/like the boys, we need to honor the fact that we are physiologically different. That, in this case, it makes us more prone to injuries… Well, chalk that up to another added degree of difficulty of being a chick. But we’re up to it!
That should have been: “Look at how pregnancy hormones AFFECT ligments and joint stability!” That would have kept me up tonight…
Heather, I love you because that would have kept me up at night too, yet I bet no one would have noticed! lol.
I’m so glad you brought up the Q-angle….I read a lot on that as well, but in the interest of how long the post was getting and not wanting to try and cover everything in this post, I left it out! But it is a major factor!
And you are SO right about there being more than just ACL injuries! ACL injuries were the easiest for me to research, but its not like you just hurt your ACL, its all related and if one goes down, usually it takes the others with it!
Love your input!!!! I was hoping for it
Wait! Did someone say pregnancy hormones?? BABY is a 4 letter word on this blog! We’ll have none of that here!lol
Kas, your knee hurts b/c you deadlift cars. Stop being a wuss and just wrap it. lol!!
Heather, stop scaring us mother’s of 3 into retirement with the mentioning of babies ‘n all. Almost spit out my tea…hahahaha!:o)
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