Exercise Science Strength And Conditioning Purpose Letter

Since the media does not emphasize the severity of female athlete injuries when the player experiences them, the athlete needs to learn post-treatments to help speed up the recovery time. Learning treatments for the injuries that a female athlete incurs may also help prevent any future injuries. Thomas says, “plyometric exercises, proprioception, agility, overall biomechanics corrective exercises” (Thomas). When a female is injured while playing a sport, they should go through rigorous exercises to recover properly from the injury and to prevent any further injuries. The coaches that coach the female athletes should be informed of how to help the athlete recover from the injury and learn ways to guide the other players on the team how to

The start of my exercise science journey began when I was a little kid. I played sports throughout my childhood and into my senior year of high school but my desire to really exercise started when I went to gym class. I thought our Gym teacher, Mrs. Starnes was the coolest lady and I enjoyed how she could talk about our bodies and knew different activities that got everyone to exercise. Also, I loved watching college football and baseball as a child and remember seeing that when the athletes would get hurt; that they would get help from one or two people who would try to find out the problem and what happened. When I was little, I did not know that the job that I saw on television would be one that I would be aiming towards as I got older.

Women playing basketball are more likely to experience ACL injuries than their male counterparts. Many biomechanical researches indicate that ACL injuries increase the danger of suffering resultant injuries such as osteoarthritis and meniscal tears. Meniscal tears and osteoarthritis occur faster in persons with ACL constructed knees and ACL-deficiency. Genetic consequences of ACL injury, monetary implications, surgery and rehabilitation have prompted current progression of ACL injury deterrence programs in basketball. Majority of prevention programs have been introduced in a warm-up set-up. The programs have effectively reduced non-contact ACL injuries in the game. Some in-print studies about the use of warm-up

With an ever increasing number of people becoming involved with athletic activities, there is an increasing number of injuries occurring which can be devastating for the individual. Most of the injuries that affect athletes occur in one of four structures in the human body: bones, muscles, tendons, or ligaments. Because ligaments attach bone to bone and play a major part in providing stability for joints, the major stabilizing ligament in the knee, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), assists in performing everyday actions of the human body including sitting, standing, walking, running, dancing, and participating in other sports. The injury that specifically affects this ligament is very serious and always

As athletes, we always feel invincible. No matter what I had been told, I was convinced that a serious injury would never happen to me. The coaches and doctors had described the “popping” sound that accompanies an ACL injury, but for years I ignored them. One day, when I least expected it, it happened to me. I tore my right ACL in September of 2012, at the beginning of my eighth grade year. For me, it could not have happened at a more inopportune time for my future soccer career and, at the time, I thought my dreams were over. I was convinced I would never play soccer in college, let alone be able to play for my varsity high school team as a freshman.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries comprise some of the highest incidents in athletic injuries, comprising up to a total of 3-5% (1) with nearly 70% coming from non-contact mechanisms. (2,3) Moreover, these injuries can lead to loss of time on the field in around 88% of the time (1). There is a substantial difference in gender as well, with female athletes being of higher risk to sustain an ACL injury. (4, 5, 6) Overall, ACL injuries can lead to early sport terminaton in athletes as well as serious disabilities in the non-athletic population (7).(Siegel’s anatomy, physiology, and pathol….(29))

In the final analysis, ACL tears are more commonly found in females because of the anatomical structure of women, improper body mechanics, and the differences in female’s circulating hormones. The human female structure has many differences to the male structure, such as muscle stiffness, stronger quadriceps than hamstrings, a wider pelvis bone, and smaller intercondylar notches. These differences in male and female structure can lead to why ACL tears are more frequent in females. Another reason as to why females are more prone to knee ligament tears is because of of the improper body mechanics performed by women. During sports, contact or noncontact studies show that women perform cutting movements that are more erect rather than a crouched

In recent years, there is an increase number in the women’s participation in different sports led to a rise in non contact ACL injuries. Team sports such as soccer, basketball, volleyball are known for require lower extremity dynamic stability for patterns of movements like cutting, jumping, accelerating-decelerating[1].80,000-2,50,000 ACL injury occurs annually in the USA [20]. Anterior cruciate ligament injuries happen more commonly in knee joint injuries which are almost 50% of total. Along with it this injury affects even after 10 years to the chronic pain in knee and osteoarthritis [29].Female athletes who involved in different sports are 4-6 time higher than males for getting ACL injury [30, 1, 19, 20].

Although when one sees an Olympic runner finishing their marathon or a professional body builder lifting weights the first thought that comes to mind is, “They must be strong”, the composition of this strength is never contemplated. That Olympic runner is not just putting on foot in front of the other, he is also pushing through his pain and maintaining constant view of his goal. This is the main type of ingredient in the strength dish, mental power. Overall strength is not only physical, but mainly mental.

Matos and Winsley stated that children participating in sports “strive to achieve higher performance through improving their health and fitness, with resistance training being used to enhance an athlete’s performance in sports” (2007). This goes back to the theme of everyone wanting to be better, faster, and stronger all at a younger age. So coaches, parents, and trainer have been pushing the boundaries of their young athletes to be able to get the best possible athletic results. All of this extra work is being done because organization such as The National Strength and Conditioning Association, or NSCA, have released statements saying that they believes that children and adolescents who take part in resistance training can see the same results that are associated to resistance training in adults (Faigenbaum, 2009). Meaning that resistance training truly can make this young athlete better, faster, and stronger than their competition. A study performed by Dotan and his co-authors tested 28 young boys, 8 of them being gymnasts, whom take part in resistance training, and 20 of them completely untrained, who have never done any resistance training. The study compared the two groups based on muscle diameter in both the biceps brachii and the biceps femoris, in

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a common sports injury occurs widely in the USA with the majority of suffering by healthy individuals with 70% of non contact period, during a variety of movements such as jump landing, cutting and pivoting (21). Different risk factors should be considered for injury, such as environmental, hormonal and biomechanical (18, 19). ACL injury prevalence is very high in soccer as well as other sports in females compared with males (29). Anterior shear force, valgus collapse, quadriceps to hamstring strength ratio (1, 21, 35, 37) are considered as other main risk factors in both genders. Co-contraction of the hamstring and quadriceps has been shown to provide dynamic stability to the frontal plane at the knee that protects maximum knee abduction loading (35). So, the main focus of the study should be on muscular strength between agonist –antagonist muscle of lower limbs and recovery after injury. Female athletes get injured almost 2-8 time higher than the male counterparts (1,5,7,19,21,24,29,33,35). Interesting point for comparing injuries in sports, dominancy of leg plays a role in ACL injury. In a non contact injury, females are more prone to get injured in their supporting leg, whereas male soccer athletes tend to injure the ACL in their preferred kicking leg (5). Biomechanical point of view, such as more extended hip-knee landing technique postures, knee pressure

An ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) which is a ligament in the knee and is an essential internal stabilizer of the knee joint and helps in restraining hyperextension. It is injured when it’s when the biomechanics of this ligaments limits are exceeded or over stretched, often with a hyperextended mechanic. It was thought that this occurred in sports where there was a lot of contact and when other structures were often involved. In the present day, the ACL injury seems to be more of a contactless injury such as; a dismount from a layup in basketball. Both forms of the injury occur more frequently in athletes than in the general population. They are also more established in alpine skiing, Association football, American football, Australian Rules football, basketball, rugby, professional wrestling, martial arts, and artistic gymnastics. It is also three times more likely to happen in males then it is in male athletes. The consequences of the injury are down to how much of the knee stability is affected and if injuries to other structures are badly damaged. This all varies from each and

This randomized study included Twenty-six patients with an acute ACL injury or ruptures of ACL grafts. To be involved in the study patients had to have a unilateral ACL injury, be free of other ligament or meniscal damage that would requiring surgical repair, and pass an examination designed to identify patients who would had the potential to return to a high-level physical activity with nonoperative treatments. Patients also have regular participation in some level I activities (eg, soccer, footbof all, basketball) or some level II activities (eg, racquet sports, skiing, construction work). Patients were randomly assigned to either a group that received the standard

ACL injuries are very common and one of the most discussed injuries in sports. Athletes who may have had a history of an ATSF during their childhood should be aware that they are more prone to an ACL injury in the near future. By conducting research such as this one, it allows athletes/patients to become more aware with their follow-ups and to be more careful when playing their sports. As Exercise Scientists, we overlook the way the body moves. So, if we

Most people will never understand the many complexities of the world. The same can be said about the human body and the different structures that work together to produce movement. Some people who desire to be in highly competitive sporting environments, will attest to the excruciatingly painful, life-altering moment when they were engaged in play and heard the quintessential “pop” sound from their knee and they are immediately falling to the floor unable to move that knee. This is usually followed by a diagnosis of an anterior cruciate ligament tear and within a few weeks, surgical methods must be taken if the athlete wishes to return to their sport at the same high level. This paper will seek to properly define what the role of the anterior cruciate ligament (more commonly called the ACL) is, shed light on the procedures necessary for an athlete to return to play, and analyze data found through research to determine the likelihood of re-injury and, therefore, the effectiveness of ACL surgery.