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What to do About Youth Athletic Injuries:
A Prevention Program for Volunteer Coaches
What is the youth athletic injury program?
In 2003, ATSPA began to
develop a new injury prevention program for volunteer coaches. The
program, What to do About Youth Athletic Injuries: A Prevention Program
for Volunteer Coaches, encourages coaches to learn more about
child-athletes. It provides prevention strategies for sports-related
injuries as well as what steps should be taken when an injury occurs. The
program consists of a program manual, video/DVD, quick-reference athletic
injury flipchart, and links to helpful websites.
Why is a youth athletic injury program needed?
More than 30 million
youth participate in organized sports in the U.S. About 3.5 million youth
ages 14 and under suffer from sports and recreation-related injuries each
year. In 1997, youth injuries in 29 sports cost the U.S. public over 49
billion dollars. The way an injury is handled can make the difference
between a temporary inconvenience and a life-long injury.
What do coaches learn from the
youth athletic injury program?
The program teaches
volunteer coaches the following: 1) the importance of knowing their
child-athletes on an individual basis; 2) how to recognize the signs and
symptoms of injuries; 3) the types of injuries most common among
child-athletes; 4) the importance of pre-season physicals; 5) the
importance of warm up and cool-down sessions; 6) how to develop a
prevention plan to avoid injuries; and 6) how to develop an emergency
action plan.
Contact:
To learn more about the
youth athletic injury prevention program or to receive brochures and
flipcharts, contact ATSPA at (717) 766-1616, 1 (800) 822-2358 or
atspa@atspa.org.
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What To Do About
Youth Athletic Injuries is a brochure that
explains the program which targets an audience that will volunteer to
coach child athletes. It is designed to assist them with defining the
common types of injuries, recognizing the signs and symptoms associated
with injury, and developing an emergency action plan.
