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With all the Oblique injuries this year, I wonder what they were called 5 years ago when no one ever heard of them. My guess is most players played through them back in the day.

Based on how many there have been so far, we are looking at another 50 or more the rest of the season...



Anyone have any ideas why there are so many now?

as much as i hate the mets..i was watchn the pregame show and ron darling made a great point...he seems to think players today swing a bat too much. he said years ago players would only take extra bp on off days and if they were in a slump. he believes the oblique injuries are happening due to overuse...makes sense to me. plus all of these offseason workouts now include core work. maybe it is more detrimental than good. i recall about 10 years ago the rage was stretching...then most experts and rehab specialists were seeing more injuries due the the extra laxistity in their ligaments...who knows but is a good analogy but i dont have a Dr. in front of my name

Originally posted by Outlaw:

With all the Oblique injuries this year, I wonder what they were called 5 years ago when no one ever heard of them. My guess is most players played through them back in the day.

Based on how many there have been so far, we are looking at another 50 or more the rest of the season...



Anyone have any ideas why there are so many now? type creatine and oblique injuries in google.

Originally posted by RoundTrippers:

as much as i hate the mets..i was watchn the pregame show and ron darling made a great point...he seems to think players today swing a bat too much. he said years ago players would only take extra bp on off days and if they were in a slump. he believes the oblique injuries are happening due to overuse...makes sense to me. plus all of these offseason workouts now include core work. maybe it is more detrimental than good. i recall about 10 years ago the rage was stretching...then most experts and rehab specialists were seeing more injuries due the the extra laxistity in their ligaments...who knows but is a good analogy but i dont have a Dr. in front of my name I wonder if a better answer is that because these atheltes are training so much, that the obliques are not developing in proportion to the spinal rotators that strike me as being the main muscles pulling through the swing.



I know that a lot of hamstring injuries are blamed on an over powered quad. They try to measure the hams to quads strength ratio at no worse than 5:3. Otherwise the hams are too weak to brake the strong quads.



It wolud be intereseting to know if its the contralateral oblique or the ipsilateral (same side) oblique.

In other words, is it the side pulling through or the side helping brake the swing?



Maybe they just called it something else years ago and we're being more sophisticated now. Remember when "sports hernia" was the rage a few years back? Or "high ankle sprain"? the "hammy"?



Did they all just disappear? I don't know and I have a Dr. in front of my name.

The oblique epidemic strikes again... add the oft injured Furcal to the list.

add longoria x 2