Bodily condition of young female athlete
May 14, 2008
We’ve been analyzing a lot lately of the growing problem of grave knee injuries among young athletes, mainly girls. As a parent, I am left with one question: What can be done to protect my daughter from a grave sports injury?
The worry is the anterior cruciate ligament, the main ligament that steady the knee joint. Earlier this year, my colleague Gina Kolata wrote this story about a rising number of cases of A.C.L. injuries amongst young athletes. The operation to mend the damage poses a greater risk for children and adolescents who have not finished growing because it involves drilling into a growth plate, an area of still-developing tissue at the end of the leg bone.
This weekend, The Times Magazine article “Hurt Girls” focused on why girls, in meticulous, seem inclined to the injury. The article noted that as boys move through adolescence, higher levels of testosterone allow boys to add muscle and get stronger. Girls, as their estrogen levels augment, tend to add fat rather than muscle and, as a result, must train more meticulously to get considerably stronger. Although the influence of estrogen makes girls’ ligaments lax and their bodies suppler, this also poses an injury risk when not escorted by enough muscle to keep joints in stable, safe positions. Girls’ different running styles and wider hips also put them at higher risk for A.C.L. injuries.
Researchers from Santa Monica, Calif., have developed a new conditioning pattern that appears to help girls better endure the physical rigors of sports. A complete team can complete its nineteen exercises — including side-to-side shuttle runs, backward runs and walking lunges — in twenty minutes. A study of the program, called PEP, was published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2005. The results: a 74 % reduction in A.C.L. tears among teen girl soccer players doing the PEP exercises compared to a control group of players who didn’t take part in the program.
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