Youth Sports * 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. 
| Proper adult neck and lower back postures. | Examples of poor adult spinal posture resulting from lack of proper management of the developing youth. |
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. | .gif){kind=spacer}