With the World Cup upon us, aside from stories of triumph and tragedy, there is a thread starting to build around injuries. Predominantly ACL injuries in the women's sport. This Study suggests that as many as 1 in 19 female athletes will suffer an ACL injury in their soccer career.
I coach 2 teams and assist on 2 others. Ages range 9 - 12. As many of the olders are now starting to develop, I would like to start implementing a program to keep their legs healthy; give them a better chance at injury prevention if I can. Find what works and tweak as the youngers start to age into their bodies changing.
Some of the theories around why women are more susceptible than men center around biological and physiological differences in women. Wider hips changes the leg angle, USWNT has a theory on menstruation, lower bone density, etc. I know it's shocking to think that something on the internet might not be accurate, (crazy right?!) so I am turning to the collective minds here for thoughts and guidance.
I'm looking for any articles, research, programs, etc. that would be beneficial in the planning of this. As well as anything some of you other coaches are deploying with your female athletes. I.e. Skiing dryland training. Those athletes have a tremendous amount of strain on their knees (and often suffer injury due to catastrophic failure), but also have great success in joint health barring high speed crashes.
I'm a huge fan of running, big thighs save lives kind of guy. But I don't think this is enough. What kind of stretches, strength training (which introduces other risks around form and weight), core work should I be thinking about, researching, deploying?
@DaveRoberts'Shoes if you have any thoughts
I coach 2 teams and assist on 2 others. Ages range 9 - 12. As many of the olders are now starting to develop, I would like to start implementing a program to keep their legs healthy; give them a better chance at injury prevention if I can. Find what works and tweak as the youngers start to age into their bodies changing.
Some of the theories around why women are more susceptible than men center around biological and physiological differences in women. Wider hips changes the leg angle, USWNT has a theory on menstruation, lower bone density, etc. I know it's shocking to think that something on the internet might not be accurate, (crazy right?!) so I am turning to the collective minds here for thoughts and guidance.
I'm looking for any articles, research, programs, etc. that would be beneficial in the planning of this. As well as anything some of you other coaches are deploying with your female athletes. I.e. Skiing dryland training. Those athletes have a tremendous amount of strain on their knees (and often suffer injury due to catastrophic failure), but also have great success in joint health barring high speed crashes.
I'm a huge fan of running, big thighs save lives kind of guy. But I don't think this is enough. What kind of stretches, strength training (which introduces other risks around form and weight), core work should I be thinking about, researching, deploying?
@DaveRoberts'Shoes if you have any thoughts
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