Monthly archive for December2012

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy DRUM ROLL PLEASE……….. The NUMBER 1 for Perfect 10.0’s Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season is…. 1) NUTRITION: Nutrition is the key to…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 2) CORE: Gymnasts tend to use their 6-pac muscles and hip flexors instead of the internal abdominals. It’s important they continuously training the internal obliques, external obliques…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #3) HIP STABILITY: The posterior gluteus medius is one of the most important hip muscles to stabilize the hip during take-offs and landings. Poor gluteus medius firing…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #4) SHOULDER STABILITY: The shoulder blade and shoulder must be stable and move properly to ensure proper loading of the shoulder and ability to efficiently swing…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #5) STRETCHING: Gymnasts take time to stretch every practice. This is important to keep the muscles and joints limber and help prevent injury. The most important things about…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to KeepYour Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #6  LANDING MECHANICS: Proper jump and landing mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue.  It is important to note the athlete lands with…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #7 LOADING MECHANICS UPPER BODY:   Proper loading mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue. It is important to note the athlete loads…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #8) RECOVERY: Always finish a workout with light cardiovascular or callisthenic cool down 5-10 minutes. Within 30 minutes of completion of workout make sure to get…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #9)  MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Keeping mentally focused is the key to every athletes success. The old sane “Gymnastics is 90% mental and 10% skill” is very true.  Here…

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PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #10 )  SLEEP: LOTS OF GOOD SLEEP Sleep is necessary for the mind and body to heal and recover.  Carve out down time for your athlete before bed…

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