#ParisOlympics 🗼 Calf Muscle Injuries In Track and Field Athletes "The calf is strong but make sure its strong enough to run" The calf works hard during all running speeds. Compare these loads to traditional gym-based calf exercises and the rehabilitation journey becomes increasingly challenging. Given the calf’s high capacities, it can be difficult to assess the competency of tissue tolerance to loading after CMSI, be wary of apparent resolution of clinical signs and symptoms in the early stages of rehabilitation as an indicator to commence running or progress rehabilitation faster. Your clinical assessment and tracking of a CMSI can be deceptive if a rigorous approach is not used. Historically, simple and low-load clinical tests offer insight into the status of recovery for lower limb muscle injuries. However, given the inherent force-generating capacity of the calf muscles, it is unreliable to use manual muscle testing or hand-held dynamometry as strength measures that can accurately guide rehabilitation progression. Quantifying strength (bent and straight knee) across a wider spectrum of qualities is recommended to better determine capacity, such as maximal voluntary isometric strength, loaded strength-endurance (isotonic), and foundation strength-endurance (single leg heel raise repetitions to failure at 60 bpm). Power and the stretch-shortening cycle are considered to a greater extent after strength-resolution. ✍️– Written by Brady Green, @EvanJeanguyot and @DrTaniaPizzari 🔗 Read More 👉 journal.aspetar.com/en/archi…