How to Prevent Rowing Related Low Back Pain

Do you expect sharp back pain as you lift and lower your shell? Or you just row through back pain the whole row? Maybe you are good for the start and then the pain sets in as you get tired. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who doesn’t deal with rowing-related low back pain. The goal of this post is to help more of us be among those lucky ones who don’t have back pain at any point during a practice!

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Knee Pain

Knee pain is the second most reported chronic injury in rowing so let’s see why and how you can prevent it! Before I dive into the ins and outs of knee pain with rowing, something to know and acknowledge is that ligament and meniscus injuries for rowers are very uncommon, and if a rower is

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Bone Health

Is Rowing Good for my Bones? The short answer is YES! But rib and spine boney injuries are something rowers deal with, so how do you maintain bone health to keep yourself in the “good” zone? This post will break down all the factors that go into keeping yourself in a healthy zone when it

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Core Stability

Rowing and Core Strength: Rowing is unique in so many ways, but the sequence of how we move and how we translate force through our body is probably the most interesting biomechanically. We move backward for one. We function in a gravity reduced plane. We use our extensor muscles of our body or the muscles

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