Young Athletes: How to Prevent Injuries and Perform Better

So can you talk about orthotics and what they are, the importance of them, but what they are? Because a lot of people have heard of them.

They don't know what they

are.

Yes.

Well, yes.

Sometimes it's the Wild West.

The role of the foot is a very, very important one.

The foot moves in three directions simultaneously, words called pronation supination.

They are normal motions.

Every time you land on your heel when you're walking, pronation allows you to absorb shock.

About 50% of you ate.

Come down from a triple jump in figure skating, you might be hitting with like six times your weight.

Pronation also allows our foot to shape to the ground, C-Rock.

Imagine you're walking on the grass.

Pronation allows your foot to shape to the ground, and very importantly, accompanying it is inward rotation of the knee.

And once you bear weight, pronation stops.

The word is called supination.

It pushes you off.

The big toe is designed to push you off.

So if you have flat-type feet and you're pronating through weight-bearing, you're pushing off an unstable surface.

And a lot of problems sometimes progress from there.

The role of orthotics in the right hands, usually podiatry, involves being able to establish what is the best position for you or your 10-year-old soccer player or your 75-year-old grandmother in order to put the foot and leg in its best position.

So whether you're looking to be two steps quicker with better agility, which is what Guido is all about, or whether you're looking to try to promote proper alignment, which has become a very big word, in all areas.

That's why I wrote an article in 2000 called Pickleball is Physical for Lower Extremity Review, one of my supporters.

And we had senior citizens jumping on the pickleball court thinking they were injuries coming out of our ears because it's a lot of movement.

So can you talk about orthotics and what they are, the importance of them, but what they are? Because a lot of people have heard of them.

They don't know what they

are.

Yes.

Well, yes.

Sometimes it's the Wild West.

The role of the foot is a very, very important one.

The foot moves in three directions simultaneously, words called pronation supination.

They are normal motions.

Every time you land on your heel when you're walking, pronation allows you to absorb shock.

About 50% of you ate.

Come down from a triple jump in figure skating, you might be hitting with like six times your weight.

Pronation also allows our foot to shape to the ground, C-Rock.

Imagine you're walking on the grass.

Pronation allows your foot to shape to the ground, and very importantly, accompanying it is inward rotation of the knee.

And once you bear weight, pronation stops.

The word is called supination.

It pushes you off.

The big toe is designed to push you off.

So if you have flat-type feet and you're pronating through weight-bearing, you're pushing off an unstable surface.

And a lot of problems sometimes progress from there.

The role of orthotics in the right hands, usually podiatry, involves being able to establish what is the best position for you or your 10-year-old soccer player or your 75-year-old grandmother in order to put the foot and leg in its best position.

So whether you're looking to be two steps quicker with better agility, which is what Guido is all about, or whether you're looking to try to promote proper alignment, which has become a very big word, in all areas.

That's why I wrote an article in 2000 called Pickleball is Physical for Lower Extremity Review, one of my supporters.

And we had senior citizens jumping on the pickleball court thinking they were injuries coming out of our ears because it's a lot of movement.