Exercise Physical Therapy

Single-Leg Deadlifts and Femoral Neck Strain: The One Model That Tested the Mechanism Found It Works Backwards

Nobody has measured strain in a living human femoral neck, in this exercise or any other. The one finite element study to compare loading configurations found that adding the hip muscle forces decreased strain at the neck and removed the bending, rather than adding it. The good evidence for unilateral hip loading exists — and it comes from hopping.