This week we're talking with Kirk DeWitt who comes from Minnesota and he's going to talk to us about dealing with injuries as an athlete and a trainer.

Hey Spartans, this is Kevin Gilotti and welcome to the Spartan athlete.

Kirk, I know that you're a trainer and I know that you deal with your own injuries and you deal with some of your client's injuries.

Let's talk a little bit about the common injuries that you would see

and how you might treat some of those injuries, common injuries.

Sure. If we're going to talk endurance athletes specifically, most injuries are overuse,

are repetitive forward nature.

So usually, and I can speak for myself with this,

unfortunately, our lateral and support system

is typically weak.

So we need to work adductors,

those small finite controlling muscle groups which allow misallignments need to be

corrected. Okay. So typically I start there.

Okay.

In that vein, what would be the types of movements that a person at home could do?

Yeah, I would do a lot of what I would consider lateral leg movements, hip girdle strength, anything

that's going to work this region, because everything in my opinion either starts from the

hip or it starts from the foot and comes up.

So one, make sure you're in the right shoe.

Two, make sure you're listening to your body.

Hard for us to do.

And three, you want to work on your hip stabilization.

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