For Teachers and Coaches
Reduce the risk of injury recurrence
Information on assessment skills, rehabilitation protocols and how to educate children and their parents to reduce the risk of repeated injury.
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 is designed to help you to understand what causes injuries and how you can help children to get safely back to sport, but also give you the educational tools to help parents and children learn how to reduce their risk of injury.
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 Reducing Injuries in Young Athletes, for teachers, coaches and exercise professionals you 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 how to reduce the risk of injuries in young athletes.
Reducing Injuries in Junior 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.