by Tim Nash
I coach girls soccer. The girls I am currently coaching are between 13 and 15, so the following sentence from a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) certainly caught my eye.
The study found that “Among teenage athletes, the rate of ACL tears is rising, with the sharpest increase seen in females aged 13-17 who, over the last 13 years, have experienced a 59 percent increase in the number of required reconstruction procedures.”
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You’re standing over an injured player and she says, “I heard a pop.” You immediately think: ACL.
Let’s talk about ways to avoid that.
Knee injuries are certainly not new to sports, especially ACL injuries. But a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says they are more frequent than ever.
by Tim Nash
The staff behind DRIVN is constantly making adjustments, tweaks and updates to help teams and organizations operate more efficiently.
Lately, time has been spent on creating and improving the way teams manage injuries.
“We can have a club-wide standard injury report on every coaches’ phone,” says Mike Gosselin, DRIVN’s Director of Business Development. “They can fill it out for every athlete. That’s become very popular.”