Bad Biomechanics for Daunte

[Bonedoc7777]

What I always see in practice is that if an athlete has a injury and he comes back too soon, he or she makes compensations in their normal biomechanics because the injury has not allowed normal function to return even if it does not hurt, this loss of biomechanics causes performance problems like we are seeing with Daunte, the problem is that these are learned skills and can be deeply ingraded in the nervous system, ie, he continues to learn to do things the wrong way and he continues to perform badly, you sometimes cannot work through it and need to stop the activity and relearn the biomechanics again like learning to walk, they are taking a risk with Daunte right now, the best thing to do is to shut him down for a couple of weeks maybe even a month and have him relearn his biomechanics so it does not screw up his future

 

[rainmaker1313]

What I always see in practice is that if an athlete has a injury and he comes back too soon, he or she makes compensations in their normal biomechanics because the injury has not allowed normal function to return even if it does not hurt, this loss of biomechanics causes performance problems like we are seeing with Daunte, the problem is that these are learned skills and can be deeply ingraded in the nervous system, ie, he continues to learn to do things the wrong way and he continues to perform badly, you sometimes cannot work through it and need to stop the activity and relearn the biomechanics again like learning to walk, they are taking a risk with Daunte right now, the best thing to do is to shut him down for a couple of weeks maybe even a month and have him relearn his biomechanics so it does not screw up his future

Are we playing in the Biosphere?

 

[phinMikeDC]

Are we playing in the Biosphere?

No we are playing in the Biodome.

 

[Canadianfishfan]

So what do we do... reast him?>

 

[Ya Think]

when did he injure his brain?

 

[PerfectFinz72]

I like to consider myself a pretty smart guy, but I really don't understand what the original post is trying to say. I guess I'm a little slow. :wink:

 

[Bofin]

bonedoc, do the dolphins have someone working with daunte on this issue. if not they reall should, now more than ever he needs sound mechanics. he has strength in that leg and is continueing to strengthen it, i can't believe saban does not have someone working with daunte to insure he keeps his basic form, feet, release, throwing motion correct

 

[Buffalo-Mike]

I like to consider myself a pretty smart guy, but I really don't understand what the original post is trying to say. I guess I'm a little slow. :wink:

Bonedoc is right, once you start to make compensatory motions, they begin to be a new movement pattern which then becomes the "new" motion. its like people who have a broken ankle and start to limp, once the ankle heals they still limp because thats what they were doing for 8-10 weeks and they have to "re-learn" to walk normally. i am brand new to this board but my first post here stated that they brought him back too early. i work with injured people/ athletes every day and "normalizing" movement patterns is not always so easy. if you watch culpepper, his pelvis isnt moving well in a 3 planes and that has a huge impact with his throwing motion. as a matter of fact, unless he can fix his lower body mechanics, he is placing greater stress on his rotator cuff muscles. bottom line is i totally agree with bonedoc, we need to give dante more time to heal.

 

[ATL-DOLFAN]

I am not an expert on qb's or anything, but it seems to me like he is throwing flat footed and not rotating his hips into his throws at all. When he does go back and plants his back foot down, he has thrown on target rockets (this is what he did sometime during the Pitt game). Mostly he just seem to throw flat on his feet or from the back of his feet, and the ball seems to just flutter. In my opinion, he has missed some pretty easy passes because of this. Not the same Daunte as before, but I have faith he will get it corrected. At least I hope...

 

[adamprez2003]

when did he injure his brain?