How to Prevent Overuse Injuries Since more than 50 percent of overuse injuries can be prevented, what can parents or coaches of
a youth athletes do to help keep them healthy and in the game?
Not exact matches
It doesn't look all that different from any other grouping of
youth ball fields, but, true to Haley's original vision, the park serves as an urban oasis for young
athletes.
Reminder to
youth athlete parents, your kid
does not play in the NHL / NFL / NBA / MLB / PGA, etc..
How refreshing, after Charles Barkley's narcissistic posturing a few issues ago, to read of Brown's obviously genuine dedication to the plight of inner - city black
youth and his lamentations that today's megarich black
athletes show so little real interest in
doing anything about it.
In 2012, in recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
In recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
«This is disappointing, Comstock said, «since they had the data and just didn't present it,» an omission that she felt was was «really important from a prevention standpoint: if we want to significantly reduce concussions in
youth soccer, [we need to know]
do we need to ban heading altogether, or would we be successful if rules prohibiting
athlete -
athlete contact during heading were enacted and strictly enforced?»
Two years ago, in recognition of April as
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
We didn't get a national wave of follow up front page stories on local
youth coaches who abused
athletes or coaches who didn't report child sexual, physical or emotional abuse to their local police or child protective agencies.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to
do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators,
youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.
Youth athletes should feel empowered to say, «This coach
does not have MY best interests at heart and I need to find that team myself.»
A state representative named Jay Rodne took a special interest in Lystedt's case and decided to see what he could
do to protect other
youth athletes, including his 10 - year - old soccer - playing daughter, Kalyn, and 12 - year - old football playing son, Rye, from suffering a similar fate.
In recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog a couple of years back answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog a couple of years back answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
I now know what it feels like to be that
youth athlete trying his or her best, only to be yelled at by the coach or captain, who really doesn't know any more than most of the players.
In recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts two years ago to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts two years ago to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
In recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
In recognition of April as
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts in 2012 to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how they have made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts in 2012 to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how they have made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
One of many ways it
does so is by presenting its Be Kind Award, which is given to those young
athletes, coaches, parents and officials who go above and beyond in showing an act of kindness during the
youth sports season.
A: I wanted to show in a tangible way that the number of adults out there who support
youth athletes the right way
do, in fact, outnumber the crazies.
All of us involved in
youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the
athletes themselves - have a responsibility to
do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are
doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the
youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota
did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey
did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether
athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).
From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic
athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make
youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being
done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.
In recognition of April as National
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past
Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why
did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a
youth athlete in the past
youth athlete in the past year.
I may not have always succeeded as a
youth athlete in
doing that, but it is clear to me that my parents» values formed a solid foundation for my early life choices and experiences.
It's up to
youth sports administrators to
do everything they can to protect young
athletes in their programs from harm — and that includes the escalating problem of bullying and adults who are guilty of it.
«This study doesn't answer whether sport specialization itself interferes with a
youth athlete's sleep and well - being,» he said, «but it
does suggest there are differences between single and multi-sport
youth athletes that could affect injury risk, performance, or lifelong athletic participation.
This therefore leaves the question of whether the risk - reward ratio for Olympic weightlifting training is acceptable for adult and
youth athletes who
do not compete in Olympic weightlifting.
It has been a rising topic of heated debate throughout
youth baseball, and is now making it into the likes of women's volleyball and tennis; how
do we keep our
youth athletes from being put under the knife before they hit high school?