We treat a lot of youth athletes at our Burlington chiropractic clinic. Most of the time, those sports injuries can be prevented. If you, or your child, is an athlete – I want you to think RNS! Recovery. Nutrition. Sleep. Focus on your recovery between training and games, eat well, and get lots of rest!

Injury Prevention in Youth Athletes Video

Key Takeaways:

• The best way to treat a sports injury in our youth athletes is to focus on prevention
• Most sports injuries are from repetitive micro-trauma, not impact trauma
• Proper recovery between games and practice will allow your body to heal – and prevent repetitive stress injuries from piling up
• Eat a balanced diet and drink lots of water
• Get lots of rest! Your body heals repetitive stress injuries while you are sleeping

Are you or your child dealing with a sports-related injury?

If you or your youth athlete is struggling with pain – it doesn’t have to be that way. We can help! Call our Burlington office at 336-270-3050 or use the link below to schedule and find out what chiropractic care can do for you. We offer a lot of sports recovery services for our Burlington athletes!

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Injury Prevention in Youth Athletes Video Transcript

DISCLAIMER: This is a direct transcript of the video audio and may not be grammatically correct.

Starting the new school year means starting the sports season. We want to help young athletes have a healthy, fun, and successful sports season. The best way to do this is to be aware of injury prevention and implement it into the lives of the athletes. 

Recovery

Injury prevention is simple, it is mainly just allowing the body to have time to heal from the different stimuli being put on it in the new sports season. Typically, injuries that come from repetitive stress just need more time in between activities to let the injury heal and let the body repair itself from the new stimulus. 

Understanding this concept of giving the body time to heal will help prevent issues in the future. These issues can be traumatic injuries such as full tears of ligaments, tendons, or more when there is a repetitive stress injury that is not given time to heal. 

Repetitive stress injury prevention can be helpful when it comes to those early sprains and strains but it is also crucial for making sure the athlete stays healthy throughout the entire season. Not letting those micro-traumas in the tendons and ligaments build-up is the key to making it through the entire sports season healthy. 

Nutrition 

Nutrition in sports and life, in general, can play a big role when it comes to injury prevention. Making sure that athletes are getting a balanced diet and plenty of water is the first step in using nutrition in injury prevention. It seems simple but having proper nutrition helps with post-workout or sports recovery.

Nutrition is the number one aspect of injury prevention in an active athlete and in everyday life. We have seen many times when parents come in with their injured son or daughter that their athlete is not drinking enough water and not getting a balanced meal.  

Sleep

Next on the list of importance for injury prevention is sleep. Although it sounds boring and like it would not impact sports performance, sleep is important to help the body recover. Sleeping four or five hours a day because you’re going to bed really late and then going to school all day the next day is not ideal for young athletes. 

Athletes need a lot of sleep so that their body has a chance to recover and repair from the demands of their sport. 

Although recovery, nutrition, and sleep are not the most exciting aspects of sports, they are the most impactful. Making sure athletes are not just trying to do the newest and greatest tools advertised for recovery and doing these 3 simple things will be beneficial for recovery and injury prevention.