Hip pain during Cricket

Great question in this week from Coach Trevor

 

Its great to hear from coaches and not just players

 

Its the coaches who are at the coal face doing their best to help the players

 

Here is what he asked

 

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Hi Dewsy

 

Quick question for you I am a level 2 coach and have a young talented fast bowler who comes to a session I run once a week.

 

He’s told me when he starts to bowl he feels pain in his hips.

 

Can you help for me to point him in the right direction.

 

Cheers

 

Trevor

 

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Obviously this is a little but hard to give a definite answer to as there is not a lot of information to go on

 

But as coaches this is what the real world is like

 

There aren’t specialists on hand to help out all the time and send the player too

 

A lot of the time you need to have something on hand to help the players there and then

 

Now the hip pain could be a number of things

 

Often it can be due to either a weakness in the glutes, as janda’s cross theory tells us, or its the result of a poor movement pattern

 

Lets have a look at the movement problems, which a lot of time can give us the answer

 

If the player has poor control around the hips and glute and is unable to perform simple patterns such as hip hinge, over squat and in line lunge then it could be problematic

 

But a lot of the time the problem is the opposite side to the point of pain

 

This seems a bit backward but the opposite side to a dysfunction has to work it’s ass off to try and compensate

 

And guess what

 

It then goes bang

 

And we are then into the bullshit cycle of physios treating the site of pain and not looking around the body to see what is actually causing the problem

 

So what I would do was get him a screening done at the very outset

 

Without it it really would be guesswork

 

You can cover the basics, get mobility in the right places, stability the same and you might be able to catch the problem by doing this

 

It could be something as simple as strengthening the glutes

 

Whatever it is we can help

 

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Lets get after it

 

Dewsy