Sports: Rehabilitation
Are you injured but need to continue training?
PowerCranks do several things for the injured athlete
1. The independent nature of the cranks ensures the injured leg is doing its fair share of the work. The strong leg cannot help the weak one. This means the injured leg will recover faster.
2. This inability to assist the weak leg means the athlete will not develop compensatory bad habits during rehab that will be difficult to undo once "healthy" again
3. Since the cranks are completely non-impact, almost everyone can use them.
4. Since the cranks are completely independent, it is even possible to get a good cardio workout if one leg is in a long leg cast and unable to bend. No need to become deconditioned waiting for bones to mend.
5. And, since the motion required mimicks good running mechanics, athletes who rehab on PowerCranks frequently come out of rehab faster than they went in.
6. And, the muscle balance forced upon the athlete by PowerCranks should make the athlete more resistant to reinjury once returned to competition.
These are some of the reasons you or your team may benefit from using PowerCranks™ as either a rehabilitation tool or an injury prevention tool.
PowerCranks™:
- Train the hamstrings, hip flexors, and the many stabilizer
muscles that control the legs and help drive them forward after the foot leaves
the ground during running. This improves top speed. PowerCranks™ also improve
the power/aerobic ability of the hip flexors, increasing the ability
to play accelerate over and over and the ability to recover quickly after such efforts.
- PowerCranks™ do almost everything necessary to improve the athletes ability to run quickly without risking injury in the process. If you haven't done so already watch a short video that explains this in some detail.
- PowerCranks™ can modify the character of the primary hip flexors from
powerful muscles with little aerobic capacity to powerful muscles with substantial
aerobic capacity (similar to the quadriceps) improving more than speed, improving your "fast" endurance also.
- An aerobic muscle has improved blood flow and more mitochondria than found
in anaerobic muscles. Improved recovery rates are possible by improving blood
flow and muscle mitochondria concentration in the hip flexors. This improved capacity
allows more frequent or sustained anaerobic bursts without degradation in effort
as the contest drags on.
- PowerCranks™ can be a rehabilitation tool to come back
from the leg & knee injuries that challenge even the best players as it is impossible to develop compsensatory bad habits or to come out of rehab unbalanced.
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