Why does blake griffin wear a sleeve

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More Nylon Calculus ». View all NBA Sites. More Atlantic News ». The right arm was held in place by a brace for two weeks, and at such a near L-shaped angle that Blake Griffin, who is nearly six weeks into the recovery and is three games into his return, still can't come close to the pre-surgery push on his jumper. The strength in the triceps muscle is a problem.

The arm has been shrunken by atrophy and is smaller than the left. Tendinitis has set in once again. Griffin has had it before, but the operation to remove a staph infection from the right elbow caused it to flare, worse than in the past. The Clippers are down to the final 13 games of the regular season, are in a Western Conference cage match just to get home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, and their leading scorer and All-Star power forward has pain in his shooting arm.

Don't even get him started about the demands to make a proper fashion statement. Griffin wore a customized white sleeve to protect the elbow the first two games. The first time I was able to get on the court was mid-August, and I was limited to 20 minutes of just spot-shooting, no movement or anything like that.

He is faster and stronger, soaring and shooting more efficiently than ever before. That his return coincides with the healthiest stretch of his career has been nothing close to coincidence.

Before his fingers traversed the muscles of star athletes, Harrison played professional rugby in both the U. His father and brother went pro in hockey, his mother a fabled equestrian rider and sister a national champion in her own right.

The Harrisons were all trained on Vancouver Island to be bigger, faster and stronger, snowballing muscle and ignoring the biomechanics required to best utilize such ferocious strength. A tight muscle will always cause a weakness in its opposite muscle. If athletes solely strength train, the opposite muscles tighten in that process. He received an opening voicemail from the self-proclaimed Big Shaqtus while driving.

He began working with Kobe Bryant. Eventually Harrison broke off on his own, launching Athlete Health First. Harrison now has eight full-time trainers on staff, three based in London to work with high-profile celebrity clients in entertainment.

I first met Harrison in mid August, when Walker plopped onto a training table at the National Basketball Players Association after an afternoon workout with Hornets assistant coach Jay Hernandez.

I then slid onto a training table, just like Walker and Griffin would begin a routine session. Bickert yanked and contorted each of my limbs, both lying face down and while on my back, taking each, precise measurement with a goniometer. If not, then you lose a certain amount of power.