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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are acute injuries which can be hard to avoid in a contact sport, especially when some referees and coaches can be lenient about hard tackles and the kids are more aggressive/faster as they grow.

A few things that we've done to address and prevent chronic pain/overuse issues (daughter is 11):
- Strength training, especially body weight-based core and lower body exercises to build muscle (routine part of another sport's practices but hopeful it will help with preventing soccer injuries too)
- Turf shoes (post-game ankle pain was generally resolved after switching from cleats to turf shoes when playing on synthetic turf)
- Post-game stretching (hard to remember to do this when everyone is ready to get in the car, but trying to encourage 5-10 minutes of cool down)[/quote]

+100!  Strength training, turf shoes (less grippy cleats on worn down turf fields -Edison high school aux field is garbage.-) and post game stretching are all super important![/quote]

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