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Youth
Sports
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Important message to everyone involved
in youth sports; Parents, Coaches,
Medical Personnel, etc.
We
view safety as having paramount
importance in youth sports.
We want to provide you with information
that could help prevent a catastrophic
injury as well as help keep your
child healthier during sports and
years beyond into adulthood.
All
children are in a spinal strengthening
program whether you know it or not.
They are maturing from the infant
C-shape spinal posture to the adult
S-shape posture.
During
this 18 year long process, the youth's
spine is weak because it has not
developed in size, achieved complete
ossification or arrived at the proper
S-shaped adult spinal posture.
All
children, especially those in youth
sports experience spinal strains.
The injuries, however small, accumulate
and mess up the youth's already
weak spine's proper development.
The youth ends up as an adult with
a weak and poor spinal posture.
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Proper adult neck and lower
back postures.
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Examples
of poor adult spinal posture
resulting from lack of proper
management of the developing
youth.
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Like
brushing their teeth, youth need
to perform spinal hygiene exercises
to promote proper spinal development.
These 3
simple exercises promote
development of the adult S-shape
posture and are needed to clean
up the damaging effects from
strains and injuries.
In
our courses we cover rationale for
implementation of the exercises
into your youth sports program that
will promote child safety and development
and help prevent catastrophic injury.
We also include tools to help identify
the child at risk for injury.
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