As another poster said, sorry it’s on here… look into the strength and conditioning of our players, change something , adjust something?! Obviously something isn’t working in this area. Geno does recruit very well, but even if a recruit gets hurt in HS he will stick to his commitments and bring the student/athlete onto campus and the team.
Actually there is. I will dig through the mountains of accumulated stuff I got over my 50 years of coaching and try to find some for you. There are always unicorns and I never implied that those injuries were always career ending just that athletes who push their bodies the hardest tend to suffer more injuries. A hamstring injury isn't as devastating as an ACL but certainly is an explosive injury. BTW Jordan only played 18 games one year due to a broken foot.
14%, according to medical treatises, of all ACL injuries are reocurrences and the gender differentiation is significant with women more likely to sustain that injury and reoccurrence. For some, it is a career altering event like Shea Ralph. For others, like Sue Bird, it seems like a bump in the road on the path to all-time greatness. It is a painful and debilitating injury and the rehab is strenuous and tedious. I feel for Azzi and her family. Having watched my daughter have 2 of them, I am sure it is very difficult for the whole family watching the games and knowing what a contribution she is capable of. I am also sure there will be some more effective ACL treatment invented one day soon since the reoccurrences bespeak the abject need for one, whether the surgery is by autograft or allograft. Let's hope so. Medicine can do better, especially for this scourge of women athletics.
What you state sounds right. I'd like to see some provable data. Injuries that I have seen seem incidental, at the moment, with a cause. I won't deny that some prolonged activity or on the flip side, lack of physical training tend to have some impact.. Apparently, read this on this board--AZ suffered a knee injury last year at ND and some say this current suffering is from that injury.. You can't prove it by me.
You, me, and the UConn fan world--are asking questions. I doubt any are pointing fingers. For 3 maybe longer years now--injury after injury shuts down the UConn freight train to the NC--we'd all like to know why? Why isn't Mulkey, Dawn, Kenny Brooks, Iowa, UCLA--having year after year side lining of top talent? Don't you think that is a fair question to ask?
Yes, I believe you did. Hopefully it's nothing.
The above, along with Rowdy831's post. In addition to strength and conditioning, nutrition, etc. I'm wondering about the medical aspect of prevention. It's odd to me to read that medical staff correlated Paige's ACL tear to her prior tibial plateau injury. So...if they knew this could happen...why didn't they look to PREVENT it? Set a regimen to minimize the probability of the injury occurring. Management. The same with Azzi, Ayanna, ... Possible exploratory radiology on these known issues periodically.
Freshman year at UConn, before that none.
Brady had a bad knee injury in 2008, changed his training regime from weight to flexibility and changed his diet. I don't believe Jordan was ever a big weight guy. Tennis players I have no idea.
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). Now look at what current NBA or college men look like. I have no idea what is now the current thing as I have been retired since 2013 from coaching but I bet the knowledge is even better now.
But the point is you want less. Not equal to (certainly not more). We got 11 NC's, we don't want to be compared/similar to other programs.
Okay.
It is not uncommon for 13-16 year old female athletes to have non contact ACL injuries but in young women the ratios are much closer to their male counterparts. With Paige I always thought the injury was to the ACL when I saw it so I wasn't surprised when she had another knee injury. With Azzi I saw her injury last year and it did not look like a knee movement that I have seen result in an ACL problem. As a rule I do not believe in bad luck so I would be prone to do a lot of investigating if I were the head of UConn WBB to make sure our training wasn't contributing to the issue.
I was told that the issue with younger female athletes is the knee wasn't strong enough to support the weight and force applied by well conditioned athletes. With that said I would say absolutely NO to jumping with additional weights and barbells could be up to an additional 20% of their total body weight.
You should use better sources for information before you make these statements. Women are 2-8 times more likely to tear an ACL than males. If you don't think the UConn medical staff and trainers have access to and utilize the best methods of injury prevention and treatment, then you're just wrong. This info is commonly known and widely used by most all major athletic programs. People questioning the UConn staff are not doing any research and making irresponsible claims and assertions about their competency and are out of touch with what really goes on.
www.yalemedicine.org
How do you know they didn’t try to prevent it? This assumption that a highly trained and educated specialist would somehow put the shining jewel in the UConn crown at risk is very puzzling to me. Whenever I see video of our team training together, I’m almost always struck by the unique and unusual things they are doing. To me, it looks as though she, (Hudy) is constantly searching out the latest training methods. I don’t think for a moment that these injuries, devastating as they have been, are in any way, the fault of Hudy and her assistant/s! Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar!
I am, too. The lack of progress ( as defined by her still not being ready ) is a red flag. And there are kids who take a long time to heal. But this gives DeBerry a chance.