Dr. Travis OwensThe Cheer Doc is an online resource for cheer athletes, gymnasts, tumblers, and other acrobatic type athletes to learn how to improve athletic performance as well prevent...
Why people get it wrong The reason that most people do not effectively or properly stretch the lower leg is because they are not familiar with the anatomy and function of the calf muscles. There are two (and for some people three) different muscles in the lower leg...
Dr. Travis OwensThe Cheer Doc is an online resource for cheer athletes, gymnasts, tumblers, and other acrobatic type athletes to learn how to improve athletic performance as well prevent...
Hands down, the most common injury in cheer is the ankle sprain. It’s no secret that cheerleaders have terrible shoes. Couple that with the fact that most of our sport is done on unstable surfaces (spring floor, rod floor, tramp and tumble tracks) and we now...
Cheerleading and Ankle Sprains “They go together like lamb and tunafish”…or spaghetti and meatballs if you’re more comfortable with that analogy. It is well known that the ankle is the MOST COMMON INJURY IN CHEERLEADING. It accounts for the...
The Most Common Injury If I could see you all at once and could ask you all at once, “think of someone you know that has sprained their ankle in cheerleading”, I can GUARANTEE almost every single person could think of at least one. There has been one...
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