For Teachers and Coaches
Understanding injuries in youth athletes
Learn how to recognise which sporty kids are at risk of injury, learn about different childhood injuries, and how to support injured athletes and get them safely back to play.
Do you know when a sporty child should rest and when they can play with pain?
Coaches and sports teachers often must make rapid decisions about whether a child can play sport with pain or whether to withdraw them.
This site provides valuable resources to help you to understand what causes injuries and explain some of the more common youth athlete injuries that occur. There are videos and booklets on many of the injuries, educational resources for you to share with parents and athletes about why injuries occur and how they can take positive steps to mitigate those risks.
Why do some young athletes get injured, yet others don't?
Some children can withstand high training loads every day, yet others can't.
Injuries occur because we exceed the capacity of the body at that time. We either do more than the body has trained for, or our capacity has been reduced by lack of sleep, growth, nutrition, or stress.
Many of these factors are under a young athlete’s control, they just need to learn how.
Through the comprehensive online course Understanding Injuries in Youth Athletes, teachers, coaches and exercise professionals will learn how to recognise the risks associated with injuries in young athletes and what steps you as a teacher or coach can make to reduce that risk and help junior athletes reach their potential.
Learn about:
- The more common child sports injuries
- How to support the injured child
- When it is safe for children to play with pain and when they must rest.
- How to do a safe return to sport protocol
- How to reduce the risk of injury and increase the capacity of the child to tolerate more load through education of the parents and the athlete.
Click here to learn more about how to start your journey to supporting young, injured athletes
Understanding Injuries in Youth Athletes
Ready 4 Cricket
An exercise and education programme to help reduce injury risk in youth cricketers.
This course will help junior cricketers and parents learn about how to reduce their risk of injury and reach their cricketing potential through an effective warm-up and strength programme. It also includes a comprehensive education programme.
Young cricketers must learn the key foundation movement principles, and develop the physical skills required for the game of cricket. In other sports, children warm up before playing and yet in cricket, they will often bowl in net sessions without warming up first.
Ready 4 Cricket is an exercise programme for junior cricketers designed to be used as a warm-up and home exercise programme to enhance performance and reduce the risk of injury. Little prior knowledge of exercise programmes is needed with videos to watch online.