Recently, when NCAA College football running backs are seen leaping potential tacklers, their efforts have become sexy to broadcasters and spectators. However, running backs are possibly leaping into their own sexy endangerment. NFL owners have realized that their teams' players fleaping over offensive linemen during kicks,
Blocking field goals or extra points just became more difficult.
NFL owners passed a rule to prohibit players from leaping over offensive linemen during kicks, the league announced Tuesday. It was one of the several rule changes owners approved via a vote at the Annual League Meeting in Phoenix.
The Philadelphia Eagles proposed the rule change, which was backed by the NFL Players Association with player safety in mind.
"The jumping over on the field goal, I think, is just leading to a really dangerous play for everybody," offensive lineman Eric Winston, the NFLPA's president, said earlier this offseason, via the Washington Post. "If you jump over the center, the jumper is in a really bad spot. He can land on his head. I think the guys that are getting jumped over are going to end up getting hurt, with those guys landing on them. So I'll be very interested to see what they'll do there. I think something probably needs to be done."
Defenders leaping from the second level over an offensive lineman, usually the long snapper, has led to exciting plays. Players like Seattle SeahawksKam Chancellor have impacted games by blocking multiple kicks. Denver's Justin Simmons famously changed the outcome of last season's contest versus the New Orleans Saints by leaping over and blocking a would-be go-ahead extra point, which was returned for two points, giving the Broncos a 25-23 win.
Of the combined 41 blocked field-goal attempts and PATs in 2016, three came from players jumping over the line, per NFL Research. Seattle's Bobby Wagner blocked a field-goal attempt against the Cardinals; New England's Shea McClellin had a field-goal block against the Ravens and Denver's Justin Simmons stymied a Saints PAT try.
Many players might be upset with the rule change, but both the NFL and NFLPA endorsed it for safety reasons. [NFL bans line leaping, approves ejections for head hits, Mar 28, 2017, Kevin Patra, NFL Writer
Human beings take risks while doing life normally. Living requires mental and body actions and Accidents happen. For Example: driving a car, sawing, hammering, delivering the mail, flying an airplane, sailing a boat etc.
“Participation in Sports, Recreation, and Exercise (SRE) is increasingly popular and widespread in American culture. Recent reports estimate millions emergency department visits occur each year for injuries related to participation in sports and recreation.” [12.]
Everyone knows SRE accidents happen, while playing by the rules of the game, in safe SRE environments, with proper athlete protection, coaching supervision and conduct.
Serious Injuries and Deaths that occur during blameless circumstances are Inherent and Natural to the game that athletes play. These incidents are called Accidental and Not-Preventable.For example, an aggressive clean football tackle that fractures an arm is an Accident and Not Preventable.
50% of Sport, Recreation and Exercise (SRE) injuries are Accidental, Not Preventable injuries. Unfortunately, 50% of SRE injuries are Preventable, Not-Accidental. [CDC] This report is not about the latter, which can be read below in the following file and elsewhere on this website, but about the former.
When Child Amateur Athletes sign-up to play SRE, the children and parents accept that there are potential accidental injuries, which are part of the game they play. However, in contrast, they don’t sign up for maltreatment, endangerment, improper supervision, human rights violations and sexual abuse.
“To optimize the safety and benefits of organized sports for children and preadolescents and to preserve this valuable opportunity for young people to increase their physical activity levels, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the following:
Balance, moderation, time management, appropriate parental support and proper Child Custodial Protection and Coaching Supervision and Athlete Safety First are necessary for Athlete-Centered Sports and Athlete Rights. [The Negative Effects of Youth Sports, Livestrong.com, Steve Silverman]
The enormous benefits of 46.5 million Child Athletes participating in SRE, while playing by the rules of the game, in safe SRE environments, with proper Athlete protection, coaching supervision and conduct, far outweighs the downsides of 1.45% Accidental, Not-Preventable Child Athlete injuries, comparatively speaking.
Reducing the 1.45% dark-side, which tarnishes the name and wonderful benefits of Child Athletes participation in SRE, will help reduce medical and insurance costs and potential criminal risks for teachers, coaches, supervisors and parents, who manifest abnormal coaching and supervision behaviors. The dark-side of SRE negatively impacts SRE, Athletes and the entire SRE community. Preventable injuries and deaths and Risk Assessment count.
“Mahoney suggested that participation in voluntary, school-based, extracurricular activities increases school participation and achievement because it facilitates:
“In turn, these assets should increase mental health, school engagement, school achievement, and long-term educational outcomes and should decrease participation in problem behaviors, provided that problem behaviors are not endorsed by the peer cultures that emerge in these activities.” [Mahoney et al]
“Participation in extracurricular and service learning activities has also been linked to increases in interpersonal competence, self-concept, high school grade point average (GPA), school engagement, and educational aspirations” [Elder & Conger, 2000; Marsh & Kleitman, 2002; Youniss, McLellan, & Yates, 1999], as well as to higher educational achievement, better job quality, more active participation in the political process and other types of volunteer activities, continued sport engagement, and better mental health during young adulthood [Barber, Eccles, & Stone, 2001; Glancy, Willits, & Farrell, 1986; Marsh, 1992; Youniss, McLellan, Su, & Yates, 1999]
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“Sports participation has been linked to lower likelihood of school dropout and higher rates of college attendance, particularly for low achieving and blue-collar male athletes (Gould & Weiss, 1987; Marsh & Kleitman, 2003; McNeal, 1995).
These studies provide good evidence that participating in extracurricular activities is associated with both short and long term indicators of positive development including school achievement and educational attainment. [Extracurricular activities and adolescent development. Journal of Social Issues, December 22, 2003, Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Barber, Bonnie L.; Stone, Margaret; Hunt, James]
“How young people spend their time outside of school has consequences for their development.” Organized extracurricular activities, after-school programs, and youth organization have significantly escalated. Research reveals positive outcomes “of participation for academic, educational, social, civic, and physical development”. Combining this with the potential for safety and supervision provided by organized activities while parents are working has increased local, state, and Federal authorities to increase these opportunities.
Participation is associated with positive developmental outcomes for most youth. “The well-being of youth who do not participate in organized activities is reliably less positive compared to youth who do participate.”[Organized Activity Participation, Positive Youth Development, and the Over-Scheduling Hypothesis, Joseph L. Mahoney, Angel L. Harris, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Volume XX, Number IV, Social Policy Report, 2006]
CLASSIFCATION OF ACCIDENTAL, NOT-PREVENTABLE SPORT, RECREATION AND EXERCISE INJURIES
“Traumatic injuries account for most injuries in contact sports such as ice hockey, association football, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football, Gaelic football and American and Canadian football because of the dynamic and high collision nature of these sports.
SRE protective equipment should be standard and supplied to each Athlete: helmet, mouth guard, goggles, pads, shoes etc.
Weather conditions, gym floors and fields, training should be safe. Athletes should warm-up, not over-training or become fatigued and injuries allowed time to heal prior to returning to participation. 5. 6.
Pre-participation physical and medical examination are extremely important to limit the risks of injury, to diagnose early onsets of a possible injury and to rule-out conditions that might become exacerbated and lead to Athlete severe injuries and even deaths. 7.
“The objective of a preseason screening is to clear the athlete for participation and verify that there is no sign of injury or illness, which would represent a potential medical risk to the athlete (and risk of liability to the sports organization).” 3.
Sufficient water and nutrition can aid in injury prevention and rehabilitation. 8.
There are approximately 8,000 children treated in emergency rooms each day for sports-related injures. 13.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), many sports-related injuries are predictable and preventable. The CDC says 50% of Child Athlete SRE injuries are Not-Accidental and Preventable. Reducing and controlling this category of Child Athlete Injuries are necessary for sustainability of SRE activities. 15.
All SRE teams must have a 911 Emergency Action Plan in case of emergency.
Kids need to have breaks and drink water as well to keep them hydrated.
The teacher, coach, supervisor, parent or other child caretaker should know certain first aid treatment on injuries to apply when there’s an unforeseen accident.
All severely injured Athletes must be examined by a qualified Doctor.
“8 of 13 major sports many injuries acquired during competition require at least 7 days recovery before returning to SRE. More females are injured during practice than in competition. 16
This report not about Preventable, Not-Accidental injuries, which result from not playing by the rules of the game, participating in unsafe SRE environments, with improper athlete protection, poor supervision and unethical conduct, when a teacher, coach, supervisor, parent or other child caretaker, cause or allow to be caused, directly or indirectly Athlete injuries. These Preventable, Not-Accidental injuries are reported elsewhere on this website.
PREVENTABLE, NOT-ACCIDENTAL INJURIES AND DEATHS OF CHILD AND YOUTH ATHLETES ARE 2*TO CHILD ATHLETE ABUSE SYNDROME (CAAS)
“Participation in Sports, Recreation, and Exercise (SRE) is increasingly popular and widespread in American culture…. Recent reports estimate millions emergency visits occur each year for injuries related to participation in sports and recreation.” [12.]
Everyone knows SRE accidents happen, while playing by the rules of the game, in safe SRE environments, with proper athlete protection, coaching supervision and conduct. Serious Injuries and Deaths that occur during blameless circumstances are Inherent and Natural to the game that athletes play.
These incidents are called Accidental and Not-Preventable. An aggressive clean football tackle that fractures an arm is an Accident and Not Preventable.
The 'kickers' for many in the Athletic Community “are unexpected, surprising and often revelations, when they learn that not all Sport, Recreation and Exercise (SRE) participation circumstances supervised by Coaches, Parents, Doctors and others in contact with Athletes are acceptable behaviors.”
Preventable, Not Accidental Injuries and Deaths occur at a rate of approximately 50% of SRE-related Children’s Injuries and are not Inherent and Natural to the games in which Athletes participate.
“About 3.5 million children age 14 and under are treated for sports-related injuries annually, and half may be preventable, Safe Kids USA officials say.” [28.] [29.] [30.]
“Each year in the United States, an estimated 38++ million children play organized sports, and basketball, baseball/softball, football, soccer, and cheerleading are among the most popular.1 Yet, sports injuries are common, resulting in 3.5 million medical visits annually.2 Most of these injuries are preventable.” [13.][16.]
These references are used in numerous references and commonly cited in Youth Sports S
afety articles. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation partners with Corporations such as Johnson & Johnson to outsource and collaborate in surveys and studies, cost savings innovations. The above is attributed to CDC and partner J&J. [13.][16.]
Preventable, Not Accidental Injuries and Deaths of SRE Children (<18) and Youth (15-24) Athletes are secondary to Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome (CAAS), the name that defines the clustering of pathologies resulting from severe punishments, injury mismanagements, such as concussion, over-use exercise, physical assaults and participation during severe weather conditions i.e. dangerous heat index, poor air quality and electrical storms to name a few.
CAAS Recognition Education requires a definition to enable Doctors, Health Care Personnel and everyone to identify “how it looks”, which was the first question I was asked by a Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky staff member. She asked me essentially to define these disorders.
The following definition was formulated and now is established and used by many Child Athlete Safety advocates, researchers and reporters.
The recently passed law, Safe Sport Act, is aimed at protecting Child and Youth Olympian Athletes from sexual abuse. The new legislation, S.534, became law January 30, 2018
It took the federal statute, S.534 Law, Safe Sport Act, to begin Athlete Safe Sport 1st initiative, which evolved from Athlete Safety 1st and this publisher’s advocacy which began with our story University of Kentucky football tragic story documented in the book by Shannon Ragland, ‘the Thin Thirty, published in 2007.
The following excerpt of our tragic football story is from ‘The Pathological Impact of Bradshaw Coaching on the 1961 University of Kentucky Football Class’ was published first on a previous Athlete Safety1st webbsite platform, June 2, 2012.
Our first Football Class Reunion was June 14, 2008, about one year after the publication of The Thin Thirty. The 2008 Reunion of the 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Football Class was both very Gratifying and Concerning.
The Thin Thirty is a remarkable book written by Shannon Ragland and published by Set Shot Press in 2007. It is an historical book about the University of Kentucky Football tragedy in 1962, untold and hushed until this book’s publication. Please see The Thin Thirty for many of the grueling details and/or see on this website ‘PLOWLINE COACHES, MULES, AND A HUNDRED YARDS OF COTTON’. This report is primarily the pathological survey.
Genuine Athlete Safety 1st began to proliferatre, having been seeded by 'The Thin Thirty' written by Shannon Ragland and published by Set Shot Press, 2007, a story about the 1962 University of Kentucky cammando, totalitarian football Athlete cruelty, abuse and tragedy.
As we organized our first 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Wildcat Football Class Reunion, we began gathering information. Questionnaires were mailed to our teammates and information gathering began.
Concerns about teammates reported experiences 50 Years Ago began to accumulate as teammates returned information for the Reunion.
We realized our teammates suffered morbidity and mortality from the reports submitted. That prompted us to survey our 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Football Team. Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated reporter, said from his recollection, it was the “first study of its kind”.
The result was “A Longitudinal and Retrospective Study of The Impact of Coaching Behaviors on the 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Football Wildcats”, Kay Collier McLaughlin, Ph.D., Micheal B. Minix Sr. M.D., Twila Minix, R.N., Jim Overman, Scott Brogdon.
Thus began our research group’s mission to discover the circumstances and pathology that compelled Charlie Bradshaw and his assistants to the vile, tyrannical, brutal, abusive, abnormal Coaching Behaviors that they manifest during 1962.
The Study’s Results: This Study was about 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Football Freshman. The history of our team began with the hope and promise of academic and football success at the University of Kentucky.
Each player had committed to Coach Blanton Collier and his All-Star assistants and the University of Kentucky. But the University of Kentucky failed to fullfil their commitment to our team. Our 1961 UK freshman football class was larger and contained more out of state recruits tan in the past. 8 High School All-America were in the class. Reporters claimed our class was the best ever recruited at UK. This reporter has no way of knowing our rank among other classes.
Instead it became a lifetime of morbidity and mortality for the players, after Coach Blanton Collier was replaced by Charlie Bradshaw. Coach Collier was immediately replaced after the end of the first semester of 1961, at the beginning of the Spring Semester of 1962.
The players had no fore-warning prior to this tragic replacement. None heard of possible uneasiness about the UK coaching staff during our high school decision making time or during the first semester at UK. Electronic media was non-existent.
There was no intervention on our behalf after the abusive Bradshaw saga began. To this day the brutal assaults and mistreatments of the athletes haunt many of the players. The University of Kentucky never admitted to the athletic community their wrong doings and never apologized to the players for their mistreatments and crimes.
Coach Bear Bryant apologized to the Junction Boys a few years after his admitted “pigheaded” abusive mistreatments of his players. Charlie Bradshaw was a disciple of Bear. Bradshaw played for Bear at UK and was an assistant to Bear at Alabama. Bradshaw was not head coaching qualified, like Bear in several or our teammates opinions.
Because of the impact on the health and welfare of the players and the loss of scholarships of the players, the University of Kentucky committed a tragic breech of trust and fiduciary responsibility, when they replaced Coach Blanton Collier with Charlie Bradshaw.
The players, after the replacement, were suddenly faced with a football regime, backed by the University of Kentucky administrators, who had no respect for the players and who did not act responsibly to the players.
Everyone concerned with University of Kentucky football program, from the president of the University down, breached the covenants with the players. They should have respected our football athletes as human beings, acted responsibly for our safety, health and welfare and fostered our scholastic development.
From the studies, it appears that Charlie Bradshaw’s behavior was abusive and sometimes criminal. His malicious behavior affected the players and will continue to affect the players for their lifetimes. The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Anxiety Reactions have affected and will affect the quality and duration each player’s life. The degree of PTSD appeared to be directly proportional to the amount of emotional and physical investment of each athlete.
At the time, football was extremely important to this reporter. My loss of football was equivalent to the extreme sadness experienced from loss of a close family member. Even worse was the shunning by UK fans and alumni in my small home town. Once pleased to see me, thy turned and walked in the opposite direction without a word. It was if I had commuted an unthinkable crime. Of course, they and others did not know the UK football tragic story. We Uk football Athletes were the victims.
The following studies support the cruelty and maltreatment we UK athletes endured.
Some of the assistants appeared to identify with Charlie Bradshaw and his abnormal behavior. Together they acted out Bradshaw’s abuse. He appeared to be maliciously sadistic toward his team according to some of the teammates reports.
In spite of Bradshaw’s malbehavior and the players’ Post Traumatic Stress disorders (PTSD) and Anxiety Reactions and other mental and physical disorders, that were the results of his and UK’s mistreatments, most of the surviving players have become successful in their businesses, professional and personal lives.
“Pulling out” of Bradshaw football was their only hope for success for some teammates. Parents and the athletic community should never chastise an athlete who “pulls out” of a corrupt athletic program. “Pulling out” might save that athlete’s life. That is not quitting.
The successes that resulted from “pulling out” from the Bradshaw regime and moving in other directions from him, have been revealed in the book The Thin Thirty by Shannon Ragland. The successes stand as a reminder of sweet revenge for many of the players.
Coach is a very particular Supervisor. Coach is a Temporary Substitute Caretaker, a label that requires that the Coach, in the Child-Athlete-Coach relationship, implement complete Child (<18) Athlete Protection, Care and Safety in the absence of the Permanent Caretaker, Parent or Guardian.
According to CAPTA 2010, Federal Public Law 111-320, it is illegal for a Supervisor, aka Permanent Caretaker and Temporary Substitute Caretaker, to have sexual contact with minor children, less than 18, whom the Coach is supervising and for whom the Coach is providing care.
CAPTA 2010 includes that it is also illegal for a Supervisor, aka Permanent Caretaker and Temporary Substitute Caretaker, to physically and emotionally (psychologically) endanger, maltreat or abuse minor children, less than 18, directly or indirectly, or allow physical and emotional (psychological) endangerment, maltreatment or abuse of minor children, less than 18, directly or indirectly, whom they are supervising and providing care.
There is no age for sexual consent by minors (<18) to Supervisor Caretakers in CAPTA 2010. Sexual consent considerations are irrelevant concerning Supervisors, Caregivers / Caretakers in the criminal statues of CAPTA 2010, Public Law 111-320.
This a special law for Child Protection under which violators and perpetrators can be prosecuted. This special Child-Athlete-Caretaker/Supervisor relationship is not a dating, courtship, special friendship or marriage relationship.
During dating, courtship, special friendship and marriage relationships, “a person may move to sexual contact on the basis of body language and apparent receptivity, but very few people on a date that results in sexual contact have explicitly asked the other if his or her consent is informed, if he does in fact fully understand what is implied, and all potential conditions or results.
Informed consent is implied (or assumed unless disproved) but not stated explicitly.” “A person below the age of consent may agree to sex, knowing all the consequences, but his or her consent is deemed invalid as they are deemed to be a child unaware of the issues and thus incapable of being informed to be able to consent.
Therefore, the individual is barred from legally giving informed consent, despite what they may feel in a dating, courtship, special friendship or marriage relationship. [Faden, R. R., & Beauchamp, T. L. (1986). A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Pr]
Child Saving history was most positively affected following “The Battered-Child Syndrome” report. Battered Child Syndrome, the first report describing Child Abuse in the U.S., was reported in 1962. It evolved into Child Protection Laws. [“The Battered-Child Syndrome”, C. Henry Kempe, M.D.; Frederic N. Silverman, M.D.; Brandt F. Steele, M.D.; William Droegemueller, M.D. ; Henry K. Silver, M.D., JAMA. 1962;181(1):17-24.]
Following and with inspiration from “The Battered-Child Syndrome” report, the United States Federal Governmental enacted the first Child Protection Law known as Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) 1972. CAPTA has been amended several times and was last amended in CAPT Reauthorization Act, 2010, Public Law 111-320.
CAPTA 2010 was announced and promulgated, funds and resources were allocated to states and public policies were established.
“Federal legislation provides guidance to States by identifying a minimum set of acts or behaviors that define child abuse and neglect. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) (42 U.S.C.A. § 5106g), as amended by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010, defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum: “Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation; or” “An Act of failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”
“This definition of child abuse and neglect refers specifically to parents and other caregivers. A “child” under this definition generally means a person who is younger than age 18 or who is not an emancipated minor.” [Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]
Problematic Abusers will continue maltreating and abusing as long as they believe they can get away with it. Unfortunately the Will to Enforce the Law is the greatest Prevention and Deterrence of Child and Youth Athlete Abuse.
Prevent Child Athlete Cruelty and Abuse. Stop Coaches, Parents and Doctors from Crossing the Criminal and Civil Lines.
U.S REP. GEORGE MILLER ASKED GAO TO INVESTIGATE YOUTH ATHLETIC CLUBS’ CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS And Expand Investigation into Child Abuse Reporting Laws to Include Athletics, Extracurricular Activities
It is a serious issue that affects all humans and all participants i.e. the athletes, coaches, parents, doctors and health care personnel, officials and entire athletic communities.
The goals of sports are to create a sporting environments with fair play, the complete respect for others. played within the rules of the game, rules of child and youth protection and an atmosphere that will not tolerate unacceptable violent behaviors. Sports builds good character…when coaches’, parents’ and doctors’ characters are exemplary when they coach, parent and care-for the Athletes who participate in the sports. 8.
There are many grey areas of violence in sports. Rugged, rough, physical collision and contact sports should be different than non-contact sports in some respects, when played by the rules of the game. 107.
But the grey areas are metastasizing to sports that were once purely finesse. No matter, rules of child and youth protection are superior to arbitrary, capricious, non-legislative man made associations’ rules of play and are criminal when violated.
All types of abuse can occur in sport just as in other institutions i.e. school, workplace, government, religion, scouts and the home. Abuse in sport, sexual or not, discourages girls and women from participation and athletic development.
Implementation of abuse policies will help create structural climates where women, girls, men and boys, can participate and feel free to report abusive and maltreatment incidents.
“Setting policy on verbal, physical and psychological abuse is also likely to decrease the likelihood of such offenses.
The Women’s Sports Foundation acknowledges that abuse occurs in athletics and seeks to prevent its occurrence through the development of this policy and position statement.” 119.
The Surgeon General of the United States Workshop 2005 included Coaches among potential targeted perpetrators of Child Abuse and Neglect. [Surgeon General’s Workshop on Making Prevention of Child Maltreatment a National Priority: Implementing Innovations of a Public Health Approach, Office of the Surgeon General (US); 2005. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, 2005]
Currently, violence and abuse in sports have been neglected by many dysfunctional systems in crisis, some of whom were named by the Surgeon General and others included by this reporter following further research. These systems in crisis have resulted, sometimes from ignorance of the law, error, lack of will to enforce the law, and/ or frank maliciousness, resulting in obstruction of CAAS Prevention:
Serious Injuries and Deaths that occur during blameless circumstances are Inherent and Natural to the game that athletes play. They are called Accidental and Not-Preventable.
An aggressive clean football tackle that fractures an arm is an Accident and Not Preventable.
Conversely, Preventable, Not Accidental Injuries and Deaths occur at a rate of approximately fifty per-cent.
Preventable, Not Accidental Injuries and Deaths of SRE Children (<18) Athletes are secondary to severe punishments, injury mismanagements, such as concussion, over-use exercise, physical assaults and participation during severe weather conditions i.e. dangerous heat index, poor air quality and electrical storms to name a few.
Recently I was consulted concerning push-up punishment to an adolescent swimmer that resulted in a Preventable, Not-Accidental torn shoulder labrum and dislocation necessitating surgery. The violation was reported to authorities and will probably result in serious consequences.
Child SRE Coaches are “Temporary Substitute Caretakers” (TSC) in the eyes of the Public Law 111-320, Child Abuse Prevention Treatment and Reauthorization Act 2010 and in the eyes of the U.S. Surgeon General and the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) and Child Protection Services (CPS). [Micheal B. Minix, SR., M.D., Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association, Page 384, September 2012 / vol 110]
Strength is the cornerstone of every sport, but injuries during improper supervision of Strength Training by unqualified Strength Training Coaches can become the rock bottom of an Athlete’s career.
The American College of Sports Medicine notes that Child and Youth Athletes require special considerations when designing an exercise program, because young Athletes body systems are immature and have individual human growth and development timelines.
“The AAP does note, however, that most injuries occur when the children and youth are poorly supervised or practicing with poor technique.”
A complete history and physical doctor examination is the first step, followed by considerations for an Athlete’s medical conditions and then followed by an individualized training program.
“NCAA rules say coaches can take only 20 hours a week of their players’ time.” Yet college Athletes spend another 20 hours with their Sport mostly in Strength Training. Misfortunately, many players are injured months before the season begins and during the season while Strength Training. [Youth Strength Training: Facts and Fallacies by Avery D. Faigenbaum, Ed.D., FACSM, Am Col Sports Med, Jan 13, 2012] [Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics Vol. 121 No. 4 April 1, 2008 pp. 835 -840] [What Are the Dangers of Children Lifting Weights? Dec 1, 2010 by Amy Dixon Living Strong] [NCAA survey delves into practice time, coaches’ trust, By Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY 1/15/2011]
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