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Preteen Beats ACL-Meniscus Tear With Grit and Great Care

Stanford Childrens

The lab combines cutting-edge technology and decades of experience to help young athletes recover safely, improve sports performance, and reduce future injury risk through biomechanical assessment using 3-D motion capture video and force plates. Over time, he ran drills with his coaches or his dad on the sidelines during practices.

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Curveballs - Kids Shouldn't Throw Them, Right?

Better Coaching

First, all coaches should read this blog post in its entirety. Being educated should be a major priority for all coaches, and really, all people. In another study, 5 medical professionals set out to look at the biomechanical comparison between fastballs and curveballs as a risk factor for shoulder and elbow injuries.

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Lessons from 2020: Future-Proofing Skill Sets for Uncertain Times

Informed Practitioner in Sport

For young coaches, practitioners and researchers, the first step is to build our portfolio, so we have something to spread! From here on, we can use these principles to critique, assess and make decisions about different situations that would benefit from specialist knowledge.

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Resolving Running-Related Injury

Informed Practitioner in Sport

The idea is that coaches and athletes should seek to avoid excessive spikes in volume, so this acute:chronic value is kept to a minimum or at least below a threshold to protect against injury. The findings of this particular study contradicted this idea, as those runners with the lowest values (i.e.