I was thinking along the same line, possible effects of her injury during the latter part of the season.I wonder if this is a lingering injury that Liv had or sustained during the tournament? Speaking from a "mature" person's prospective.......Liv is too young to have hip problems. She's not even 25 yet. Remember what you felt like when you were 25? What a forgetful year this has been for our team as far as injuries go. I believe (help me out if I'm wrong) only Edwards and Westbrook were the only two players to play in every game this year. It's possible either or both of them were nicked up but managed to play through it.
Talking about too young for a hip malady, Caroline Ducharme came out of high school needing surgery. How kids end up playing a season with such problems is beyond me.I wonder if this is a lingering injury that Liv had or sustained during the tournament? Speaking from a "mature" person's prospective.......Liv is too young to have hip problems. She's not even 25 yet. Remember what you felt like when you were 25?
What a forgetful year this has been for our team as far as injuries go. I believe (help me out if I'm wrong) only Edwards and Westbrook were the only two players to play in every game this year. It's possible either or both of them were nicked up but managed to play through it.
I was prepared for old age because my body started falling apart at the age of 19.She's not even 25 yet. Remember what you felt like when you were 25?
Friendly edit: It was her junior year. I think it kept her from being a rotation player that year.I was prepared for old age because my body started falling apart at the age of 19.
Hip can mean many things. As Rocky said, Caroline needed hip surgery; Saylor had surgery for one hip labrum early in high school and the other after her (Maryland high-school player of the year) junior season. Saniya Chong has an IT band issue her senior, another part of the hip.
Gabby Williams had a persistent hip flexor issue, I think her senior year. I had the same thing at the same time. I kept saying to my wife, "I wonder what the hip flexor is?" Finally she looked it up, and asked, "Does that look familiar?" This may be what's ailing Olivia. The hip flexor is on the inside part of the thigh. I'd been thinking it was a groin issue (what they said Olivia had in the Final Four), but no groin stretches or anything helped. We found some stretches specific to hip flexors, and I was mostly pain-free within a few days. It still comes back, was especially bad last night after a half marathon.
Specialization is definitely one part of the issue. Affordability is another challenge as the costs for youth sports isn't the same as when we were these athletes age. I couldn't afford much beyond basketball even though my daughter excelled at track and field, volleyball and flag football. Would have loved to have her in multiple sports but there's only so much my budget could manage.IMO the seemingly alarming increase in sports injuries is due to them being pushed so hard when they are kids. Today most kids only play 1 sport and they play that sport all year round. That puts a lot of strain on a subset of muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. whereas when I was a kid, we played at least 3 sports during the year getting a more rounded yearly "workout". In my small part of the world, my son has baseball friends who have had Tommy John surgery when they were 12-18 years old. You would think that would raise a red flag that something is wrong. It doesn't. Parents are living their dream through their kids and looking for the "golden ticket". Very few ever find it.
one of the best posts I've seen on this forum, if only I could give 1000 likes.IMO the seemingly alarming increase in sports injuries is due to them being pushed so hard when they are kids. Today most kids only play 1 sport and they play that sport all year round. That puts a lot of strain on a subset of muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. whereas when I was a kid, we played at least 3 sports during the year getting a more rounded yearly "workout". In my small part of the world, my son has baseball friends who have had Tommy John surgery when they were 12-18 years old. You would think that would raise a red flag that something is wrong. It doesn't. Parents are living their dream through their kids and looking for the "golden ticket". Very few ever find it.
As a sprint coach I found that hip flexor injuries were one of the most common problems (along with shin splints). Makes it very hard to drive the knee upwards and pull the leg back toward the front. Very painful and lingering.
I was a wrestler and now a 63 year old carpenter. You deal with pain!Talking about too young for a hip malady, Caroline Ducharme came out of high school needing surgery. How kids end up playing a season with such problems is beyond me.
Yeah, I get that and have dealt with a pretty fair amount of it over the decades. However, a teenage athlete with a hip issue in all likelihood has a joint issue beyond pain (the hip bone's connected to the leg bone). Then there is showing up for Geno's summer "camp" before the real deal in the fall. You sound like one of my old high school coaches: "Run it off." I hope your pain is tolerable.I was a wrestler and now a 63 year old carpenter. You deal with pain!
The moral of this story is don’t run half marathons. ;^)I was prepared for old age because my body started falling apart at the age of 19.
Hip can mean many things. As Rocky said, Caroline needed hip surgery; Saylor had surgery for one hip labrum early in high school and the other after her (Maryland high-school player of the year) junior season. Saniya Chong has an IT band issue her senior, another part of the hip.
Gabby Williams had a persistent hip flexor issue, I think her senior year. I had the same thing at the same time. I kept saying to my wife, "I wonder what the hip flexor is?" Finally she looked it up, and asked, "Does that look familiar?" This may be what's ailing Olivia. The hip flexor is on the inside part of the thigh. I'd been thinking it was a groin issue (what they said Olivia had in the Final Four), but no groin stretches or anything helped. We found some stretches specific to hip flexors, and I was mostly pain-free within a few days. It still comes back, was especially bad last night after a half marathon.
Even Randy Jones in his prime needed elbow surgery. Mid 70s for SD Padres, threw almost nothing but sinkers. Games almost always done under 2 hours with 24 ground balls outs. He was magic for 2 years.One of the reasons I watch almost no baseball any more is that there's such stress put on NOT hitting the ball where a play can be made on it. The relevance to the previous posts is that pitchers are being taught earlier and earlier to throw hard and to throw pitches that put stress on the elbow. It seems at every level that pitchers are being taught to strike out hitters. Gone are the pitchers in the vein of Greg Maddux, Jim Palmer, and Juan Marichal who threw pretty hard but relied on finesse and location to get hitters to hit the ball where the defense wanted it.
On the offensive side, there's inordinate stress put on home runs, walks, and getting pitch counts up. There are hitters who put the ball in play in fewer than half their plate appearances now. That was unheard of 30 or so years ago.
I wonder if this is a lingering injury that Liv had or sustained during the tournament? Speaking from a "mature" person's prospective.......Liv is too young to have hip problems. She's not even 25 yet. Remember what you felt like when you were 25?
What a forgetful year this has been for our team as far as injuries go. I believe (help me out if I'm wrong) only Edwards and Westbrook were the only two players to play in every game this year. It's possible either or both of them were nicked up but managed to play through it.
Yes, genetics. Of course I was being facetious. Liv is only 21 (born Aug 17, 2000) I'm over 3 times her age. Just because I don't have hip problems does not mean she can't. I do have other physical ailments associated with old age. She can have hip ailments even if she weren't an athlete. Been there done that. As an athlete that competes hard for as long as she has, it very easy to "tweak" something that can hurt for a long time afterwards. You don't have to be an "octogenarian" to have hip problems. I'm betting this is NOT a new injury. She brought it with her from school.Former non-athlete coworker had double hip replacement surgery at age 29. Should have had it 2 years earlier. Genetics?