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Originally Posted by AHawk1
Unfortunately a very common occurance in girl's/women's basketball and it isn't Doyle's error(I know said in jest) that happen's way to often in women's basketball. However, a lot of these injuries are caused by improper training. I have no idea how this unfortunate injury occurred but poor training contributes to a lot of these.
Someone with some knowledge needs to show the statistics of men's BB ACL tears compared to women's. It's a huge difference. Most are brought on by a huge muscle imbalance caused from excessive quad strength in comparison to Hamstring strenghth.
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It's just more common in girls, period. Lots of high school girls blow out their knees in any sport they play (including a girl who I went to school with, who blew the same knee out twice while playing softball). They're just more prone to it, and whatever improper training they receive in college just heightens the risk even more.
At this point, it might be time to take a good look at what we're doing with this girls. Surely there's something we can do to reduce the number of these injuries, because we seem to get hit with them all the time (more than most or any other schools).
It could very well be their training regimen. Chelsea Thomas (All-American softball pitcher at Mizzou and Pleasantville, IA native) had all kinds of trouble with injuries her first couple years on campus. The softball team was using a football training regimen. They got a sport-specific program before last season; she was healthy all year and was one of three finalists for National POY.
I'm not saying we're using a football workout program, just saying that the proper program can make all the difference in the world.
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