Oblique Injury – the New Achilles Heel
It seems like every week a professional sports player is coming down with an oblique injury. If I were writing a chapter book and this chapter were about obliques, it would be titled Obliques: Injury of the Aughts (hopefully you read the previous post). Rarely heard about until a few years ago, oblique injuries are popping up everywhere, especially in baseball players, thanks to the violent swings and rotational movement by pitchers. Players such as Manny Ramirez, Albert Pujols, Chipper Jones, Carlos Beltran, and recently AL MVP Dustin Pedroia have all been sidelined with oblique ailments.
A superquick anatomical rundown:
“The oblique muscles, located on the side and front of the abdomen and attached to the ribs, are responsible for flexing and rotating the trunk. Those are key movements in baseball.” 1
So the next time you hear a ballplayer going on the DL because of an oblique strain (which I guarantee will happen in the next couple weeks), you can say something like, “yeah, that’s the same thing that kept Pedroia out of the WBC.”
Read on:
USAToday.com – Oblique injuries putting a strain on several major league teams
DrYessis.com – Is core training responsible for oblique injuries?
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