13. Mobility Training
Mobility training can help to improve an injury in the short-term by restoring normal range of motion and helping to prevent tightness and pain from leading to more accidents. At the same time though – and perhaps more importantly – it can also prevent future injury by helping you to correct poor movement patterns and generally avoid anything that might lead to accidents.
Mobility work will mean things like restoring range of motion in the ankles, things like preventing tightness in the hamstrings, or removing a ‘quad dominance’ during exercise. All these are examples of one muscle group doing more of the work than it should be, thereby altering the posture and gait, and thereby placing the weight in areas of structural weakness. For instance, poor ankle mobility will cause you to lean slightly backward during a squat, thereby placing a lot of strain on the back.