Concussions and head injuries have been in the news a lot lately.
News like this can be scary, and it can become particularly disconcerting when the news stories start to center on your kids. Like the one that notes how high school football players have a 75 percent chance of suffering a concussion.
Football – youth, professional or otherwise – isn’t the only sport that statistics categorize as being potentially dangerous for the head and spine. These sorts of injuries seem to become more common in every sport from soccer to basketball … and the examples of this happening to kids are becoming more and more prevalent.
An estimated 36 million American youths play organized sports every year, and the studies that report on the long-term consequences of repeated head trauma are potentially very frightening.
Moreover, some studies go so far as to say that young football players don’t even need to get diagnosed with a concussion to have cognitive deficiencies later in life. They contend that simply performing high-impact activities at too high a rate can somehow worsen memory.
The good news is that some of those same studies also point out that the risk can be reduced when coaches are educated properly and make necessary changes, like minimizing contact and high-impact drills during practice.
Limiting explosive, high-impact drills is growing in importance. But in order to achieve success while also protecting players, coaches need a better way to organize and simplify practice plans and drills.
Charting drill productivity, tracking the progress of each player performing the drill, and then having it all in one easy-to-use place can benefit coaches.
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