Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 07:48     Subject: Re:ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:Squats. Deadlifts. Monster walks with a resistance band. Clamshells and other hip complex strengtheners every day. Leg strength, especially lateral strength, helps hold the bones in place, might result in a sprain/strain rather than a rupture in the same injury situation.


I’d add in Romanian deadlifts, box jumps, and lateral jumping exercises.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 22:56     Subject: ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries


I’ve never heard of any coach assigning this amount of running to players. Why are you making things up?


S/he isn’t making this up. There are HS coaches that “highly recommend” wink wink their players to run XC. Then they run more than others during the season.


Which proves just how little travel soccer coaches know.


So you think players should run cross country?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 18:43     Subject: ACL Prevention
Speed skating?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 18:12     Subject: Re:ACL Prevention
Squats. Deadlifts. Monster walks with a resistance band. Clamshells and other hip complex strengtheners every day. Leg strength, especially lateral strength, helps hold the bones in place, might result in a sprain/strain rather than a rupture in the same injury situation.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 15:12     Subject: ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries


I’ve never heard of any coach assigning this amount of running to players. Why are you making things up?


S/he isn’t making this up. There are HS coaches that “highly recommend” wink wink their players to run XC. Then they run more than others during the season.


Why would you run XC? I benefitted from track running the 100 and 4x100 relay season before soccer. That's the kind of running you do in soccer.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 14:38     Subject: ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries


I’ve never heard of any coach assigning this amount of running to players. Why are you making things up?


S/he isn’t making this up. There are HS coaches that “highly recommend” wink wink their players to run XC. Then they run more than others during the season.


Which proves just how little travel soccer coaches know.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 09:56     Subject: ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries


I’ve never heard of any coach assigning this amount of running to players. Why are you making things up?


S/he isn’t making this up. There are HS coaches that “highly recommend” wink wink their players to run XC. Then they run more than others during the season.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 09:25     Subject: ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries


I’ve never heard of any coach assigning this amount of running to players. Why are you making things up?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 08:56     Subject: Re:ACL Prevention
Anonymous wrote:^ I have boys on top teams U17 and U14 and they never were assigned running like that.


Soccer does not benefit from endless miles of running. Soccer requires explosive speed and fast twitch muscles. Distance running is not going to do it.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2021 08:55     Subject: Re:ACL Prevention
^ I have boys on top teams U17 and U14 and they never were assigned running like that.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2021 23:37     Subject: ACL Prevention
Play another sport at least at the rec level. Girls especially build up strength in their legs but in very specific zones. Too strong on one end leads to over extension on those ligaments by muscles not being used as hard on a regular basis. Some clubs have zero understanding of this and have their players running way to much when out of practice. Running is great for conditioning but if you are never using ligaments or tendons except in one way you are risking a tear when one set of muscles is a lot stronger than another. Again, coaches that assign miles and miles of running and are not consulting with experts are most guilty of this. Does your coach require more than 10 miles running a week outside practice below the age of 16 (girls especially?) This is building endurance but increasing the risk of acl or mcl injuries
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2021 14:17     Subject: ACL Prevention
One thing that has come up a lot and I’ve began to read is cognitive and reactionary workouts. It enables the player to really overload the body in a safe but very game like situations so that injury prevention can be prevented altogether but also when injury has already occurred bring them to a cognitive response to the body of going back to game like situations in a healthy and un fearful manner. My DD had a acl injury and we found a trainer afterwards that changed her game completely bc of these two components
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2021 12:04     Subject: ACL Prevention
Don't play on turf.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2021 10:19     Subject: ACL Prevention
6 months after first period start strength training in off-season 2-3 times a week focusing on posterior chain for at least 8 weeks. Then do PEP program warmup at least twice a week.

Most clubs will not do this. DD had a coach that did the strength training for free but DD’s actual coach never did the warmup. If your club isn’t on-board, it’s all a mute effort
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2021 10:13     Subject: ACL Prevention
What is the latest body of knowledge on ACL prevention for soccer players? When I was coaching PEP (Prevent injury and Enhance Performance) from Santa Monica Sports Medicine Research Foundation was a widely adopted program that had at least some level of effectiveness proven. Since then FIFA 11+ program came out and other programs have been developed but google search turns up a bunch of profit-based results intended to scheme money and not help. Is there an industry-standard approach to ACL injury prevention? Is the FIFA 11+ the best out there? Is there something specific to higher-risk groups such as females?