Youth sports are so much more intense and competitive than they used to be, and often young athletes do not take/are not given enough recovery time to properly build the muscle they need to support their joints. When I was a young athlete the theory about why girls and young women tear their ACL’s more frequently was a center of gravity thing. 🤷🏽♀️
I don’t know. The increased flexibility, and lack of external supports is something I can’t quite relate to. In my defense, Eric Dickerson’s pads weren’t seen as a performance impediment. Or The Bos on the other side of the line….
Halfway tempted to go check out the dam doorbell.
Wondering if the ACL injuries are due to weight….
This doesn’t look to be completely on-point, but…..
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11339932/
Youth sports are so much more intense and competitive than they used to be, and often young athletes do not take/are not given enough recovery time to properly build the muscle they need to support their joints. When I was a young athlete the theory about why girls and young women tear their ACL’s more frequently was a center of gravity thing. 🤷🏽♀️
I don’t know. The increased flexibility, and lack of external supports is something I can’t quite relate to. In my defense, Eric Dickerson’s pads weren’t seen as a performance impediment. Or The Bos on the other side of the line….
I think that the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that it has made no effort to contact us.