I had some mild pain in my back knee after practicing long drives the night before. As soon as you mentioned hip rotation I stretched my back hip and had instant relief. Thank you so much for the information!
Thank you for sharing! I'm getting back into the game after having a lateral meniscus repair. The tear happened while rock climbing, but I suspect disc golf played a part in the lead-up to the injury. While progressing my form, I spent some time focusing on not turning forward too early to watch my throw, but I think this led to a bad habit where my brace foot isn't rotating enough. While my distance improved, I now experience some discomfort in my knee a day or two after playing. I'll be recording my form and working on getting more heel pivot. Also, getting shoes with *less* grip than my current ones might help (I walk up, no run or crow hop).
Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out some good stretches. I find that my knee injury was aggravated by trying too hard to rotate off of my heel, not from the balls of my feet - to- the heel. It’s getting more important to be conscious of my form, the older I get : )
thank you for this video. i started playing disc golf 4 months ago and recently i realize my plant right knee randomly buckle while walking and i just brushed it off. Just yesterday my knee buckled right after driving off the teebox and it was pretty painful. your video made me aware of my form whereby im not clearing my plant foot after driving, and a few months ago i had a bad left ankle sprain which still affects my dorsiflexion till now. looks like i need to focus on clearing my plant foot my twisting on my heel or really pushing off my back foot to follow through, as well as focus on getting my left foot dorsiflexion back to 100%.
Great vid. I threw backhand yesterday and didn't follow with foot and felt a pop in back of knee followed by pain and I can't walk normally. So on to see my primary tomorrow. Glad I found you!
Awesome video! Touched on alot of important things that we often don't think about before we go out for a round. The hip strength and stability is crucial. I found that lots of glute strengthening (primary focus on glute med) and single-leg stance exercises are essential for disc golf and preventing plant leg injuries. Lots of success with banded monster walks, banded squats and banded standing clamshells for strengthening.
Excellent information. I wish I would have learned this before I had a meniscus tear. However, I think I have some better knowledge and will work on conditioning now that I better understand how this happens. I spent a lot of time learning how to throw backhands and forehands, but don't recall the type of focus you have presented related to protection of the knee. It makes perfect sense. Before I play again, I will make sure I'm better prepared.
Early on I had pain right on the tibial tuberosity. I tried a stabilizer strap, but the only thing that fixed it was correcting my form. Thank you so much for your videos. I've already found ways to improve my game from watching them. Keep it up... and get involved in the Reddit /discgolf threads if you aren't already!
Played so heavy from age 17-19 with bad form that I tore my meniscus pretty bad in 2012. Never healed correctly and must have went back to bad habits and tore it again at 22 in 2015. Had majority removed. Now I’m in a tough position at 27 trying to play disc golf again. My plant foot is basically a dead leg. I do a lore of forehand but it’ll never be the same. So people please.. do things correctly
HaikesXO Same boat! Except I tore my ACL and shredded my meniscus from a longboarding fall. Majority of my meniscus was removed. Now 8 months post surgery. I'm having to learn to throw all over again. No more 400ft drives for me. I know I didn't injure mine disc golfing. I can relate to your pain.
I would tend to think it has to do with other things than the disc golf throw. First culprit is usually gait mechanics. Or if someone threw a lot of forehands.
Laying on the couch right now with a sore outer right knee (miniscus area?) from practicing drives. Thanks for the tips. Any other stretches you recommend besides the ones in this video?
I throw primarily RHBH 70%, also throw RHFH 20% and LHBH 10%. I developed a very swollen and inflamed index finger on my right hand. When I throw RHBH now the first couple throws of the day create an aching pain just in the finger. Do not get this pain from throwing RHFH. After about 4-5 throws I no longer feel any pain as it feels perfectly normal. For the last 2 weeks I’ve been taking ibuprofen twice a day and icing it regularly. As well as not throwing any RHBH throws. This has improved slightly as far as mobility and pain. I’m leery once healed this will be developed again. Is there anything I can do to help prevent injury on this finger while playing? Before a break from throwing RHBH I was taping it to my middle finger which did seem to take off some pressure on the index finger. Thanks!
Yeah. Hands are one of the only things I don't deal with on a regular basis, but sounds like you are on the right track. Taping is not a bad idea. The only other thing I would consider is altering your grip. I had an issue with my middle finger last year (history of a bad fracture). I altered my grip so that I didn't use my middle finger and it resolved. I didn't think I'd ever be able to use that finger substantially for disc golf again but I have had no issues this year. Also, for the rhbh many people do not really use their index finger and focus on the middle, ring, and pinky fingers. You may want to do the same.
The Disc Golf Doctor Thanks for the tips. And yeah I’ve tried not applying my index finger to my grip and it didn’t go well. It’s been healing slowly but I will keep on it!
@@Ozzys29 What type of discs are you throwing alot? I found that throwing a lot of putters was really hurting some of my fingers and the area between the thumb and pointy finger were you pinch the disc for forehands. The deep rims of putters was my problem, they rip alot harder coming out. So I went over to throwing more mids/fairways and it has not been a problem since
I had some mild pain in my back knee after practicing long drives the night before. As soon as you mentioned hip rotation I stretched my back hip and had instant relief. Thank you so much for the information!
Thank you for sharing! I'm getting back into the game after having a lateral meniscus repair. The tear happened while rock climbing, but I suspect disc golf played a part in the lead-up to the injury. While progressing my form, I spent some time focusing on not turning forward too early to watch my throw, but I think this led to a bad habit where my brace foot isn't rotating enough. While my distance improved, I now experience some discomfort in my knee a day or two after playing. I'll be recording my form and working on getting more heel pivot. Also, getting shoes with *less* grip than my current ones might help (I walk up, no run or crow hop).
Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out some good stretches.
I find that my knee injury was aggravated by trying too hard to rotate off of my heel, not from the balls of my feet - to- the heel.
It’s getting more important to be conscious of my form, the older I get : )
thank you for this video. i started playing disc golf 4 months ago and recently i realize my plant right knee randomly buckle while walking and i just brushed it off.
Just yesterday my knee buckled right after driving off the teebox and it was pretty painful.
your video made me aware of my form whereby im not clearing my plant foot after driving, and a few months ago i had a bad left ankle sprain which still affects my dorsiflexion till now.
looks like i need to focus on clearing my plant foot my twisting on my heel or really pushing off my back foot to follow through, as well as focus on getting my left foot dorsiflexion back to 100%.
Thank you for taking your time on this topic, I’m excited to try these out
Great vid. I threw backhand yesterday and didn't follow with foot and felt a pop in back of knee followed by pain and I can't walk normally. So on to see my primary tomorrow. Glad I found you!
Awesome video! Touched on alot of important things that we often don't think about before we go out for a round. The hip strength and stability is crucial. I found that lots of glute strengthening (primary focus on glute med) and single-leg stance exercises are essential for disc golf and preventing plant leg injuries. Lots of success with banded monster walks, banded squats and banded standing clamshells for strengthening.
agreed
Excellent information. I wish I would have learned this before I had a meniscus tear. However, I think I have some better knowledge and will work on conditioning now that I better understand how this happens. I spent a lot of time learning how to throw backhands and forehands, but don't recall the type of focus you have presented related to protection of the knee. It makes perfect sense. Before I play again, I will make sure I'm better prepared.
Early on I had pain right on the tibial tuberosity. I tried a stabilizer strap, but the only thing that fixed it was correcting my form. Thank you so much for your videos. I've already found ways to improve my game from watching them. Keep it up... and get involved in the Reddit /discgolf threads if you aren't already!
Michael Zernial glad to hear it. Thanks for the feedback.
Played so heavy from age 17-19 with bad form that I tore my meniscus pretty bad in 2012. Never healed correctly and must have went back to bad habits and tore it again at 22 in 2015. Had majority removed. Now I’m in a tough position at 27 trying to play disc golf again. My plant foot is basically a dead leg. I do a lore of forehand but it’ll never be the same. So people please.. do things correctly
HaikesXO Same boat! Except I tore my ACL and shredded my meniscus from a longboarding fall. Majority of my meniscus was removed. Now 8 months post surgery. I'm having to learn to throw all over again. No more 400ft drives for me. I know I didn't injure mine disc golfing. I can relate to your pain.
Nailed it, thank you 😊
Is there any reason the drive knee(left knee for RHBH) might have pain during rounds?
I would tend to think it has to do with other things than the disc golf throw. First culprit is usually gait mechanics. Or if someone threw a lot of forehands.
Laying on the couch right now with a sore outer right knee (miniscus area?) from practicing drives. Thanks for the tips. Any other stretches you recommend besides the ones in this video?
I throw primarily RHBH 70%, also throw RHFH 20% and LHBH 10%. I developed a very swollen and inflamed index finger on my right hand. When I throw RHBH now the first couple throws of the day create an aching pain just in the finger. Do not get this pain from throwing RHFH. After about 4-5 throws I no longer feel any pain as it feels perfectly normal. For the last 2 weeks I’ve been taking ibuprofen twice a day and icing it regularly. As well as not throwing any RHBH throws. This has improved slightly as far as mobility and pain. I’m leery once healed this will be developed again. Is there anything I can do to help prevent injury on this finger while playing? Before a break from throwing RHBH I was taping it to my middle finger which did seem to take off some pressure on the index finger. Thanks!
Yeah. Hands are one of the only things I don't deal with on a regular basis, but sounds like you are on the right track. Taping is not a bad idea. The only other thing I would consider is altering your grip. I had an issue with my middle finger last year (history of a bad fracture). I altered my grip so that I didn't use my middle finger and it resolved. I didn't think I'd ever be able to use that finger substantially for disc golf again but I have had no issues this year.
Also, for the rhbh many people do not really use their index finger and focus on the middle, ring, and pinky fingers. You may want to do the same.
The Disc Golf Doctor Thanks for the tips. And yeah I’ve tried not applying my index finger to my grip and it didn’t go well. It’s been healing slowly but I will keep on it!
@@Ozzys29 What type of discs are you throwing alot? I found that throwing a lot of putters was really hurting some of my fingers and the area between the thumb and pointy finger were you pinch the disc for forehands. The deep rims of putters was my problem, they rip alot harder coming out. So I went over to throwing more mids/fairways and it has not been a problem since
I recently twisted my knee throwing , started to feel a poop in the back of the knee, It is a little better now, but not perfect
hopefully it gets the rest of the way there. If it doesn't resolve fully, you should have that check out.
Toe to heel on plant foot, easy fix. Most pros do this.