{"id":227663,"date":"2016-11-02T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=227663"},"modified":"2016-11-02T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:24:32","slug":"2-missing-parts-of-your-swimmers-shoulder-injury-prevention-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2-missing-parts-of-your-swimmers-shoulder-injury-prevention-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Missing Parts of Your Swimmers’ Shoulder Injury Prevention Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr. G. John Mullen, Swimming World Contributor
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\nI often discuss shoulder health, in fact many of you are probably sick of me laboring about shoulder injuries and injury prevention. Unfortunately, I feel like I’m not getting my point across, as thousands of swimmers enter our clinic each year<\/a> with shoulder pain and injury (remember why you shouldn’t shrug off swimmer’s shoulder<\/a>). This is because teams still aren’t implementing the mandatory components of a swimmers shoulder prevention program!<\/p>\n

Recently, a great research study by\u00a0Matthews (2016) looked at the effects of 8\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0100\u00a0m training swims off a 2:00 interval. Target times were prescribed for each swimmer based on 85 percent of their best 100-meter times. This study suggested one set of 8 x 100 m caused the following:<\/p>\n