Weak gluteus medius and abductors are implicated in many lower extremity injuries at the hip and knee, including ACL injuries and knee valgus.

“a weak gluteus medius weak abductors are can cause a lot of injury and I do believe that the stronger they are it's almost like Bones the higher the bone density you get early on then the higher your glider that's right that's right because it is just going to happen and so the stronger and healthier the tendon is at a starting point um this is this is sort of how I think about this — first of all not only are you likely to have less injury and I'm talking about ACL injuries too I'm talking about knee injury it holds back to valgus yeah everything that you're gonna talk about in the news exactly”