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Girl’s high school sports and injuries
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:42 am
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:42 am
Any of you have daughters that play sports and sustained injuries? Does it seem way to prevalent?
I see friends post about surgeries their kids have, and a coach friend posted a photo of her squad and I was shocked that so many had huge scars on their knees from surgery already. Some had shoulder surgery scars, too.
Just seems crazy.
To be fair, our daughter broke her shoulder and her leg already by age 11…
I see friends post about surgeries their kids have, and a coach friend posted a photo of her squad and I was shocked that so many had huge scars on their knees from surgery already. Some had shoulder surgery scars, too.
Just seems crazy.
To be fair, our daughter broke her shoulder and her leg already by age 11…
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Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:54 am to concrete_tiger
Kids are far more competitive, they tend to specialize in one or a few sports that utilize the same motion/muscles/tendons for a large number of reps, and doctors may he more likely to choose surgery to accelerate healing or correct problems that cant be correct with rest.
Same reason we went from very few people getting Tommy John in the MLB to teenagers getting Tommy John surgery will regularity.
Same reason we went from very few people getting Tommy John in the MLB to teenagers getting Tommy John surgery will regularity.
This post was edited on 1/27/24 at 7:55 am
Posted on 1/27/24 at 8:00 am to concrete_tiger
Girls are far more likely to tear an acl. Their bodies are just made different. Just another reason why you can't "identify" as a female and it be the same.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 8:01 am to concrete_tiger
there's good money in surgery, not so much in 2 weeks of pt.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:09 am to concrete_tiger
My daughter is playing varsity soccer for a 6A school in Texas. Played club soccer since she was 8 years old. Never been injured. She has a teammate who tore her ACL twice at 13 years old and is not out of soccer.
Maybe we are lucky, but I think it just depends on the player. Plus, parents weren't posting about this stuff years ago online.
Maybe we are lucky, but I think it just depends on the player. Plus, parents weren't posting about this stuff years ago online.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:17 am to tiggerthetooth
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Kids are far more competitive, they tend to specialize in one or a few sports that utilize the same motion/muscles/tendons for a large number of reps
True - younger kids might play different sports in different seasons.
Boys are more likely to rotate football/basketball/baseball.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:22 am to concrete_tiger
Turf
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:47 am to Dupont3
Great point.
Our club soccer team refuses to add turf to our facility for this exact reason. However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
Our club soccer team refuses to add turf to our facility for this exact reason. However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:50 am to RocketTiger
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Our club soccer team refuses to add turf to our facility for this exact reason. However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
Well that’s dumb if true.
Also in my experience coaching, girls are more ruthless than boys. Sure boys will be real rough when playing but they do it with smiles on their faces. In my experience, When things get rough in girls sports there is real anger behind it.
This post was edited on 1/27/24 at 9:52 am
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:50 am to concrete_tiger
As someone alluded to, adolescent girls are much more prone to ligamentous injuries, especially ACL tears, than their male counterparts. ACL tear in that age group are almost 5 to 1 female to male.
This is attributed to several factors including being more ligamentously lax at baseline, hormonal differences, mechanical differences with lower extremity limb alignment, and functional differences in how girls tend to pivot and land.
Any orthopaedic surgeon who treats young athletes tends do reconstruct far more ACLs in girls than boys.
This is attributed to several factors including being more ligamentously lax at baseline, hormonal differences, mechanical differences with lower extremity limb alignment, and functional differences in how girls tend to pivot and land.
Any orthopaedic surgeon who treats young athletes tends do reconstruct far more ACLs in girls than boys.
This post was edited on 1/27/24 at 9:52 am
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:10 am to Dupont3
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Turf
The studies on turf versus natural grass aren’t applicable to youth/HS sports.
Those studies are comparing turf to professionally maintained natural surfaces. Youth and HS natural surfaces are even close to maintained at that level.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:20 am to Antonio Moss
The natural grass HS football field is terrible to play soccer on…the boys do it…but the girls have a dedicated pitch.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:20 am to concrete_tiger
I coach high school cross country. I usually have about one or two on both girls and boys teams that get injured every season. From observations it has more to do with body type than anything. The ones that take weights seriously usually stay healthier
Posted on 1/27/24 at 11:24 am to concrete_tiger
I had a son play D1 soccer so I wanted to learn as much about injury prevention as possible to help him.
Came across this group from New Orleans that has trained Ja’mar Chase, Darrel Williams, many others with main goal of injury prevention such as ACL tears and Achilles tears.
They show numerous videos that time and time again the mechanism of injury is the same for ACL tears and Achilles injuries no matter the playing surface.
For ACL tears, the foot is usually turned out like a duck foot and the inside knee falls inward. Prevent that motion and prevent the ACL tear.
For the Achilles, every time the tear happens when weight drops to the heel and the heel drops to the ground. Learn to keep that heel from dropping and keep the Achilles from tearing.
With that said, it is harder to train that into being natural movements and that is where they come in. They train the movements over and over and over so it becomes natural. Their results of preventing ACL and Achilles tears have been stellar from what I have seen.
Might want to check out their instagram page
LINK ==
Came across this group from New Orleans that has trained Ja’mar Chase, Darrel Williams, many others with main goal of injury prevention such as ACL tears and Achilles tears.
They show numerous videos that time and time again the mechanism of injury is the same for ACL tears and Achilles injuries no matter the playing surface.
For ACL tears, the foot is usually turned out like a duck foot and the inside knee falls inward. Prevent that motion and prevent the ACL tear.
For the Achilles, every time the tear happens when weight drops to the heel and the heel drops to the ground. Learn to keep that heel from dropping and keep the Achilles from tearing.
With that said, it is harder to train that into being natural movements and that is where they come in. They train the movements over and over and over so it becomes natural. Their results of preventing ACL and Achilles tears have been stellar from what I have seen.
Might want to check out their instagram page
LINK ==
Posted on 1/27/24 at 11:38 am to RocketTiger
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However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
This doesn’t seem believable.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 12:37 pm to RocketTiger
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However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
Idk if every 6A high school in Texas is on turf, much less the whole rest of the state
Posted on 1/27/24 at 12:58 pm to GhostofJackson
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Girls are far more likely to tear an acl
Knew a pretty Sophomore in high school years back. All she did was innocently kick a ball.
Came back to school on crutches with a giant surgical scar all down her leg and knee which she'd have for life.
We're all not physiologically the same.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 1:08 pm to concrete_tiger
I tore both my ACLs. One in college football, the other in backyard badminton. I think some people are more physiologically prone to ACLs.
My surgeon told my my ACLs were dainty but my PCLs are massive. That was a few years ago. Now I’m due for my first total knee replacement.
My surgeon told my my ACLs were dainty but my PCLs are massive. That was a few years ago. Now I’m due for my first total knee replacement.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 1:27 pm to RocketTiger
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However, every high school in Texas is required to have turf fields due to a freak injury with a girl soccer player and a sprinkler head.
This is FALSE! I coach in Texas and we don't have turf for our soccer teams. The only ones that have turf play on the football turf game field.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 4:32 pm to concrete_tiger
It's all about the Q angle, bruh.
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