The Evidence for Corrective Exercise: Basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal’s career in the top flight was free fall, until his support team used a corrective strategy developed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). His revival was simply unbelievable! Read the full story taken from www.slamonline.com below:
“Dr. Michael Clark and some of his colleagues at the National Academy of Sports Medicine developed the Corrective Exercise Strategy (CES).
As a medical doofus, I wouldn’t do CES justice with a layman’s explanation, but it basically involves taking the injured body part (say, a knee) and then looking at all the surrounding and connecting muscles and joints, diagnosing whether they’re weak or tight and integrating them back into basketball specific movements.
Clark explains that CES just doesn’t look at what’s injured, it asks “why is it injured?” A weak ankle, he says, could be the reason for a pulled hamstring.
NASM is the official provider of sports medicine education for the NBATA (National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association), but each team obviously has the autonomy to implement and utilize CES as they see fit.
Shaq’s renaissance: It’s like exhibit A for CES. During his geriatric stint, it took Shaq a lot of time to “gather” to jump which gave defenders an advantage. He had no spring, no explosion. A lot of that comes from a strong gluteus medius muscle.
Thanks to the Suns’ staff, Shaq says those muscles are “firing” now, which has enabled him to move with force and purpose again. Between Shaq’s revitalized mobility and his out-of-nowhere free-throw accuracy (62 percent for the year, 74 percent in January), homeboy is averaging about 21 and 10 in his 13 games since December.”
