By Michael J. Stott
Beneath the bowels of the CenturyLink Center, far from the madding crowd gathered to witness the fastest swimming on earth, are a cadre of men and women working to ensure athletic speed. Below, physical therapy and massage professionals like Club Wolverine’s Dave Kuhn help keep swimmers keep loose and mobile for a run at top qualifying times.
Kuhn is a partner in 13 (soon to be 15) PT clinics in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. He began working with USA Swimming at national and international meets in 1999 and began working with Michigan’s Mike Bottom in 2010. The work he and the school’s in-house PT staff has done has been instrumental in securing Michigan men’s 2013 NCAA title and other top performances.
Kuhn’s services are mostly pre- and post-race with consultation offered when requested. “Pre-race we principally work on dynamic flexibility and stretching. We do whatever the athlete needs to put them in the best position to swim their best. It is different for each athlete so there is really no pre- or post-race formula. Athletes may have little aches and pains from a prior race, travel itself, the hotel bed so we’ll do some PT to help improve mobility and/or reduce pain. Swimmers will warm up and come back and we’ll do a pre-race ‘shake,’ get them loosened up a little bit.
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