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The British Columbia Soccer has teamed up with Soccer Science International to ensure the good health of players and maximize their fitness. Soccer Science International provides soccer specific education, instruction, and training that promotes injury prevention and maximizes players’ physical potential in the sport of soccer.
All articles written by Rick Celebrini and printed in the Province are now available on line. Click on the links below.
Rick Celebrini is a former Vancouver 86er captain, one of the founding physiotherapists of Soccer Science International, and is the sport science consultant of the British Columbia Soccer Association's technical committee.
The focus of Soccer Science is in the formation of a training program that addresses the prevention of soccer related injuries while enhancing player performance. BC Soccer's Soccer Science program is based on an extensive literature review on the incidences, mechanisms, contributing factors, and present/previous prevention strategies of soccer related injuries, augmented with its own research and its members' clinical and playing experience. This exercise program will be implemented across a broad demographic including players of different ages, sexes and skill levels to determine long-term outcomes and the effectiveness of the program in both the prevention of injuries and the enhancement of performance.
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WHIP to avoid sports injuries Nov. 2, 2001 Provided by: CANOE Written by: Karen Tankard It's not unusual to hear adults complaining about the lingering effects of sports injuries they suffered as children, injuries that prevent them from participating in physical activities. Now, a B.C. organization is working to help young people avoid becoming hurt in the first place.
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The B.C. and Yukon Division of the Arthritis Society has this fall introduced a new training program aimed at B.C.'s 75,000 child soccer players. It's designed to prevent the types of sports injuries that can cause a form of arthritis later in life.
The program is called WHIP or 'warm-up helps injury prevention'. It was adapted from a program developed for women athletes by the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Foundation in California. WHIP involves a series of strength exercises, such as squats and hamstring lifts, and agility exercises, such as diagonal and forward and backward running. Another important component of WHIP is lower body muscle stretching. It's all meant to protect the delicate knee joint.
"By stretching, you're decreasing your chances of injuring your knee joint. By strengthening you're more able to support the muscles that support the knee joint, so the likelihood of sustaining a knee joint ligament injury is greatly decreased," says Jennifer Scrubb, Health Promotion Manager for the Arthritis Society, B.C. and Yukon Division.
As many of us know, knee injuries suffered in our youth frequently come back to haunt us as adults. That's because once the knee has become injured, the cartilage begins to break down and degenerate over the years until all that's left is bone rubbing against bone. The society hopes WHIP will reduce cases of osteoarthritis in adulthood.
"If a youth sustains an injury before the age of 22, they're three times more likely to develop osteoarthritis by their mid-40's," Scrubb says.
Osteoarthritis is most common in the knee, ankle and hip joints and in the spine. The painful condition currently affects about one in 10 Canadians.
B.C. youth soccer teams are being encouraged to incorporate the WHIP program into their training sessions several times per week, especially teams with players between the ages of eight and 13 - an age group where they're still at a low risk of getting injured. At 14, soccer injuries rise dramatically in both boys and girls.
For more information about the WHIP program, visit the society's website at www.arthritis.ca /bc. |
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