EC Orthopaedics

As William Shakespeare says in Hamlet:

“It is better to put up with the familiar evil,

How to flee to the unfamiliar to strive! [9].

With these words, William Shakespeare intelligibly explained the reason for the conformity of "familiar" knowledge, which makes it difficult to gain a new understanding. Critic D.I. Pisarev wrote that a new understanding “goes to the one... who throws off the yoke of dominant concepts, who fearlessly swims against the general current and... defeats its resistance” [7].

Abstracting and considering human locomotion from the point of view of orthopedics, we proposed a new understanding of the mechanism of jumping and running. Thus, in particular, avoiding the usual knowledge and dominant concepts in every possible way, we decomposed the aspects of muscle contractions into component parts through the prism of orthopedics and built a different mechanics of jumping and running [1-3].

We have shown that repulsion, interpreted by the former paradigm, in jumping or sprinting, due to the powerful and rapid contraction of the muscles, is not possible due to the very short period of time allotted for the interaction of the athlete with the runway. Under these conditions, only the deformation principle of movement is able to give the athlete a motor impulse [1-3].

This new understanding (gestalt) of jumping and running, of course, required a revision of the entire training system for athletes specializing in running and jumping. However, the introduction of this concept into the practice of training athletes did not bring us the expected results. Our results did not support the new theory.

But the contradictions that arose between the new theory and training practice could not remain unanswered, in connection with which we continued to study the deformative nature of running and jumping in relation to the practice of implementing these concepts in the training process of athletes. To find the reasons, a study was conducted with the following tasks:

1. To investigate the reasons for the negative results of the pedagogical experiment on the introduction of plyometric exercises based on deformation mechanics;
2. Find ways to reconcile the contradictions of the new postulate with the practical training of high jumpers.

Keywords: Deformation Mechanism; Plyometric Exercises; Microtrauma; Replacement with Fibrous and Collagen Tissue

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