SOCCER POSTS ONLY... Can this be done?

Lavey29 said:
I'm a big proponent of cold laser therapy also to help the healing process for certain injuries like sprains and strains. It has worked well for my kid.
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As in Cryotherapy?
Both my kids do it as well as compression... seems to be helpful or should I say preventative in injuries
 
Footy30 said:
I agree, what are your kids stretching pre (dynamic) and static (afterward) regime with their team... I'm often horrified at some teams lack of proper warmup.
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They do a good 15 minute warm up before practice which I like but no post practice stretching. My kid told me last night driving home that her body got cold standing around to much at practice and she felt she was going to tweak something during the last drill. I told her to share her concerns with the coach so she can adjust her format a little and keep kids moving especially since temps at night are quite cool now.
 
Footy30 said:
As in Cryotherapy?
Both my kids do it as well as compression... seems to be helpful or should I say preventative in injuries
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Not cryo although that is critical first 24 hours depending on type of injury.

Cold laser is deep penetrating to help inflammation and speed the healing process. Combined with compression also in PT
 
Lavey29 said:
My kid has had multiple injuries so far this year with only a few games played. Back strain and pulled hamstring. Kids are out of shape due to the minimal season they have had. To much standing around at practice in cold weather and then doing something quick and dynamic without your body being ready. This is especially hard on older kids. Kids need to be constantly in motion at practice to keep the body ready and loose.
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My son's team had a full roster for one game this season, the first one. They've been 7 players down (17 roster) at one point, and the new "normal" is minimum of 3 down per game. The transition from the silly boxes to no contact small sided scrimmage to suddenly playing messed up any prep. Lots of late tackles (rusty players!) taking out players also; a few concussions to boot.

On the positive side, a pretty normal game schedule; negative side not a great season results wise, but meh to that. Fortunately he has been injury free.

My daughter has started more than one final with only 10 players able to take the field. They've been down to 9 in a few games too. All good though, as they have grown as a result and become more resilient.

Lavey29 said:
I'm a big proponent of cold laser therapy also to help the healing process for certain injuries like sprains and strains. It has worked well for my kid.
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Cold treatment is awesome, although I go old school with a bucket of water/ice and soak it (painful BTW for the kid), but quick results.
 
Lavey29 said:
My kid has had multiple injuries so far this year with only a few games played. Back strain and pulled hamstring. Kids are out of shape due to the minimal season they have had. To much standing around at practice in cold weather and then doing something quick and dynamic without your body being ready. This is especially hard on older kids. Kids need to be constantly in motion at practice to keep the body ready and loose.
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Agreed - especially with multiple games on weekends as the first games played in months. It takes time to get into game shape especially if you can't scrimmage.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
Agreed - especially with multiple games on weekends as the first games played in months. It takes time to get into game shape especially if you can't scrimmage.
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Cannot over emphasize game shape, it's why early season friendlies ,fitness gains and off season maintenance is important. I think this is where you see the separation start to happen between players. Who's committed to improvement. Hard to convince a 14 year old that off season stuff is important, but it is. Figuring out your player's biomechanics is extremely important. My oldest had patellar tendinitis. Figuring out his biomechanics, treatment, etc paid huge dividends. Figured out his legs muscles were to big?? crazy. Targeted stretching routine (pre/post game), routine acupuncture, and balancing core strength has done the trick. Everyone is different.
 
Lavey29 said:
I'm not the one posting alleged hospital stats and or other China virus info. Those were posted in response to my soccer related posts by others so I'm very much on topic here. Got some great video service for the upcoming matches this weekend also. I can send you the link after so you can watch a little bit of good soccer. Really makes you feel good the rest of the day.
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Racist.
 
Lavey29 said:
Not cryo although that is critical first 24 hours depending on type of injury.

Cold laser is deep penetrating to help inflammation and speed the healing process. Combined with compression also in PT
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Oh, I'll have to look into this for my kids... thanks!
 
Footy30 said:
Oh, I'll have to look into this for my kids... thanks!
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I lot of athletes use it to speed up healing. My friends son was lineman in high school football and he would just buy like a 10 pack of treatments for him to use during the season. My kid did several treatments for recent pulled hamstring and was back full practice in 3 weeks. Original medical estimate was off for 4 to 8 weeks for grade 2 hamstring injury. Its painless and treatment only takes maybe 15 minutes.
 
EOTL said:
Racist.
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Uh, is that supposed to be soccer related Ewok? Cmon man join the discussion properly. My Kids got 4 nice games this weekend. I can send you a link to see video of some really nice quality soccer from your isolation bubble. Wouldn't that be nice for you? The fields are right next to the Colorado river also, great venue and perfect 70 degrees.

Let them kids play...
 
There are definitely days where a practice is more standing than even a coach would like, especially if it is a new drill or new players trying to assimilate. I think our team does a decent job of warming up, but could probably be better and definitely after practice is lacking! Roster size can also affect the standing in practice as smaller size less standing :). I still don't know what size I like for rosters 15 for local games and 18-20 for travel games. Our team has done some pool cool downs in the past after games -- girls don't seem to like it, but we haven't had any soccer related injuries either.

At some point the athlete has to take it onto themselves to be prepared and do appropriate stretches before and after a practice and not care about rushing home or late to practice. The in between practices regiments are also helpful -- do some cross training.

Up until this year (Junior) the oldest has played at least 1 non soccer sport for her school. The youngest (Freshman) still plays multiple sports, both non school related at this point, but once things go back will probably continue that way as she likes too many to give them up :) I think the 1 sport athletes definitely have to be more vigilant on proper body care than multiple sport athletes
 
Lavey29 said:
I lot of athletes use it to speed up healing. My friends son was lineman in high school football and he would just buy like a 10 pack of treatments for him to use during the season. My kid did several treatments for recent pulled hamstring and was back full practice in 3 weeks. Original medical estimate was off for 4 to 8 weeks for grade 2 hamstring injury. Its painless and treatment only takes maybe 15 minutes.
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Oh wow that's great, hamstring injuries are terrible, quad too and grade 2 hamstring back in 3 weeks?? yes , definitely looking into this. Thanks again, we typically do what I mentioned before plus sometimes cupping, scraping, etc. when injured (and rest) but it sounds like I should def add this to our arsenal.. Glad your kid is better!
 
youthsportsugghhh said:
There are definitely days where a practice is more standing than even a coach would like, especially if it is a new drill or new players trying to assimilate. I think our team does a decent job of warming up, but could probably be better and definitely after practice is lacking! Roster size can also affect the standing in practice as smaller size less standing :). I still don't know what size I like for rosters 15 for local games and 18-20 for travel games. Our team has done some pool cool downs in the past after games -- girls don't seem to like it, but we haven't had any soccer related injuries either.

At some point the athlete has to take it onto themselves to be prepared and do appropriate stretches before and after a practice and not care about rushing home or late to practice. The in between practices regiments are also helpful -- do some cross training.

Up until this year (Junior) the oldest has played at least 1 non soccer sport for her school. The youngest (Freshman) still plays multiple sports, both non school related at this point, but once things go back will probably continue that way as she likes too many to give them up :) I think the 1 sport athletes definitely have to be more vigilant on proper body care than multiple sport athletes
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At my kids school, the assistant coach of her varsity team did thorough warm up and cool downs at practice and during games in the season. The result was not one injury that caused a player to miss a game. It was impressive how well he kept the team physically fit and ready to play.
 
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