Henry Abbott
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. I mean, these are very active questions in science right now. And there's a bunch of theories. You know, there could be hormonal explanations. Could be women have wider hips, which permits their knees. There's like this thought that if your knees go in together as you bend your knees, that is an elevated risk of ACL tear. There are so many theories. Women have narrower ACLs.
There's all these theories. But I'm a little bit struck by, so in this granular movement data that my book is about,
they did a massive study of like every single thing that goes into nba players who had acl tears over years basically so if someone has an acl tear then they go back and look at that person's assessment say how do they move and by this analysis it's none of those things i just described like acl tears are caused by landing on the outside of your foot and having the weight roll to the inside like your shin bone is moving like a big windshield wiper right
That's cause number one. Is that more common in women? We haven't studied that yet, right? But I think that would be tip top thing to study, right?
And then the second biggest cause is femoral rotation. So this is where, this is gross, but you go with my analogy. You know when you have the Thanksgiving turkey and you like twist the leg off?
Well, I'm using my arm against the upper half of your leg. For some people, when they squat down, your upper leg bone twists inside your leg. And you can imagine that would be extremely stressful, like on your ligaments in your knee, right? So the first problem is managed by stronger muscles in the lower leg, like we've been talking about, right?
The second problem is managed by stronger muscles in your hip. Like your hip has... That bone in your upper leg has little knobs on it, and there are muscles that grab it and hold it in place and keep it from rotating. And you can just strengthen those muscles and make it stronger. And you do that with all sorts of difficult work, like side planks.
But this is why yoga teachers are more important to some of these problems, right? It's because they're very flexible, and you kind of want to be rigid in that particular way. So I think this is the...
like this would be the first place to start for me if i'm talking about like leading injuries for women right is these two things have been studied in men and they have not been studied in women uh they're kind of that's so weird yeah so the way men like p3 is an expensive place for professional athletes to go and mostly like adidas pays for them to go or their agency or uh how much is it i don't honestly know it depends what you know like like right now there's nba players going there before the draft for seven weeks
So that's going to be a lot. I went for three days, right? That's going to be a four-figure number, right? But they just started having, just in the last year or two, by the time I was writing the book, Aaliyah Boston was the number one WNBA overall draft pick, and Hayley Jones was, I think, the sixth pick. They were there.
That was the first time that the shoe company paid for women basketball players to go. Wow. And so there have been a bunch of women through there, but it's only 15% of the thousands of athletes they've had. So, you know, the industry didn't fund that before, right? But it's starting to.
And so I think I'm trying to find ways that they could just assess like a thousand soccer players at once just to get a big data set to start answering these questions. I think that's what the future will look like. I think it's important that a lot, you know, without this data set, we're looking at all these things like ligament width and it's not likely the cause, I don't think.
so one of the answers you won't like and one of them you will i think okay i like that the one that you won't like is that they we're going to come soon to a point where there'll be some way to like assess your own biomechanics right like you want to do a workout that's designed for you like when they put the exercise on the board and everybody does the same workout yeah it's it's
Like you want someone with expert eyes looking at your body, right? And they're saying, oh, and then like, what happens now is you get hurt first and then you go to physical therapy and then it's customized for you.
Right. Right? Yes, 100%. And, you know, and it's a little sad to me. Like, I was doing PT for a while at this place where they had, like, a track and all the sports equipment. Because I think the idea was they'd have these, like, elite athletes being explosive in there. Yeah. But everybody in there is so broken. They never use the track, right? Of course. That's right.
Yeah.
That's a big deal.
Yeah. So there are 25 illustrations in the book of like, cause I was like, they're obsessed with elite athletes there. Right. And, and they will tell you, they're like, Henry was so annoying with asking me so many questions about like the rest of us.
Right. Okay. They, he, I mean, they won't say this, they won't admit this, but like they call us normies.
It's all normie. I tried to capture as many of the things as I could. Writing about it is a little bit tricky because you need to really see what you're supposed to do. For instance, their warmup, It's amazing. There are days where I got up and felt like the Tin Man. And, you know, I'm 50, and I would go downstairs and be like, oh, my gosh, I think I broke something.
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