You’ll see the last post was on Osgood Schlatter as well. Because of the imbalance in the vastus medialis (see last post) I wanted to check the hamstrings a little more closely today when this client came in. This is how I did it:
- I put Zac (our 15 year old client with Osgood Schlatter) prone on the long box facing the foot of the reformer.
- I sprung the reformer with one each of the red, blue and yellow springs.
- I put the foot loops over the arches of his feet.
- I had Zac bend the knees to pull out most of the slack out of the cords. (about 120-115 degrees)
- Zac performed hamstring curls in parallel, external rotation and internal rotation. He did 5 of each with both legs (grooving the motion) and then 5 of each with one leg only (dropped the blue and yellow springs)
- This exercise showed a weakness in the hamstring that creates knee flexion with hip extension in internal rotation. Or in simpler terms: His right leg was much weaker than the left when the knees were together and feet dropped open while trying to perform a hamstring curl.
Homework: I added to Zac’s homework with the exercise in the pic. He is in internal rotation and he is pulling against the weight of the theraband. I am having him do all positions on both legs, double-leg and single leg with the theraband and the help of his very amazing mom. I am also having him do extra work on the position that is most weak (see #6 above).
sity) becomes inflamed. You can usually recognize it by the bump that begins to form on that bone below the knee, a bump that lasts throughout adulthood. You can see from the photo that that bump has not really protruded very much yet on the right knee that is affected but if you look closely you can almost see it.
