10 Minute Tip #30: How To Keep Training With Foot & Ankle Injuries in Barbell Training & Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a relatively safe sport in that the risk for injury is far less than contact and team sports and still less than Crossfit and weightlifting. Foot and ankle injuries directly caused by powerlifting are extremely rare. In fact, most injuries of the foot and ankle that affect your ability to powerlift occur outside of training. If they do occur as a result of barbell training, they are usually caused by a weight room accident.

 

You may feel that because a foot or ankle injury affects the way you walk or how you bear weight on your foot, that you shouldn't squat or deadlift. However, in most cases, barbell training can and should be uninterrupted due to a foot or ankle injury. If you can put the foot down, you can perform the squat, bench press, deadlift, and overhead press. The reason this is the case is because there is little to no ankle movement and there should be no foot movement during the powerlifts. 

 

In this 10 Minute Tip podcast episode we encourage you to keep training in appropriate ways with respect to foot and ankle injuries in three categories and exactly how to do that:

1. Chronic conditions:

   1. Bunions

   2. Plantar fasciitis

2. Weight Bearing injuries

   1. Stress fractures

   2. Ankle sprains

   3. Tendonopathy

3. Non-weight bearing injuries

   1. Post surgical

   2. Fractures

 

 

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