Reply to "Are weak hips a real thing?"

Go44dad10,000+ posts

CaCO3Girl posted:
Bulldog 19 posted:
Your son's knee valgus movement (knees collapsing in) is caused by a weakness of the hip abductor muscles (of which there are quite a few). Most notably the two muscles you want to focus on are the glute medius and the glute maximus. Both of these muscles play a huge role in knee pain and biomechanics in adolescent athletes.
While I believe you, and will look into those areas, I have a naive question. I am interpreting this to mean my son has weak butt muscles, is that right? What I don't get is how a catcher who sits in the squat position a LOT can have weak butt muscles. Common sense would say that the catcher has the best butt muscles on the team...why the disconnect from common sense?

He's 13 and grew a lot recently.

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