If you fancy a break from discussions of water / strips / reporters, here's some stuff about knees. Apologies if you've seen this already. Dean.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:26:36 -0400 From: "Craig Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ED] Protect your ACL To:'eurodisc' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Melle, Great site..as a former girls high school basketball and softball coach I have seen many ACL tears over the years. I hate it. There has been a recent trend to attribute the higher prevalence of ACL tears amongst girls and women athletes to the menstrual cycle. If you Google ACL's and menstrual cycle you will find a lot of information. It suggest there are more ACL tears during the ovulation phase of the cycle. Not sure exactly when that is! J But I'm sure you ladies know that. Over the past 10 years in my own informal study I would say about 75% of the young women I asked who tore ACL's have told me they were some where in their menstrual cycle. I really became convinced in a non scientific way that it appeared to me that the menstrual cycles were having an effect. We started making anyone in a pre menstrual cycle (that's what we called it) had to wear knee braces in practice and be very careful. It did limit some of our ACL tears but not all. As Melle as so wisely pointed out in her e-mail, one of the other reasons for ACL tears in women is the positioning of their knees in relation to their hips. Another is not landing in correct position. I instituted quickly a plyometrics program for all our girls athletic programs. These types programs work on strengthening the knees and the surrounding areas, builds up other leg and core muscles, and teaches you how to land properly. I would suggest plyometrics for any young female athlete who competes on a high level in any sport. Here is a link that you can check out to get you started if you would like more information on this subject. http://www.orthojournalhms.org/volume2/html/articles22.htm Good job Melle. Shoot the old guy with one knee and no arm, Buck Buchanan USA Guts GPA #001 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melle Clark Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:17 PM To: ulti NYC-ultimate; ulti Asheville; eurodisc; Dames; Lotus Eaters Subject: [ED] Protect your ACL There's been a series of articles in the New York Times lately about the prevalence of ACL tears amongst girls and women athletes. Everyone knows this is a pretty common injury for Ultimate players to sustain. Below is link to an exercise program recently developed -- 20 minutes of exercises -- aimed at strengthening supporting muscles in an effort to prevent the injury. http://aclprevent.com/pepprogram.htm As noted in one of the articles [http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/protecting-knees-of-young-athletes /], ACL reconstructive surgery "involves drilling into a growth plate, an area of still-developing tissue at the end of the leg bone," so it is particularly important to take measures to avoid this injury in players under 25. Play well, Melle __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
