2022 AOSSM Annual Meeting Recordings with CME-Q & A: Sports Health Symposium II

Video Transcription

You know, the prevention programs have been shown, a number of them have been shown to work well. Yet, the epidemiologic studies seem to increase, seem to say  that the numbers of ACL injuries especially in the most vulnerable are increasing. Where's the problem? Are we just not training enough?  It's hard to believe that there's more kids more athletically active. What is it? Why are those numbers going up? Hailey, Greg, thoughts? I'll talk in here.  So my thought on that is just that our strategies for reducing those injuries are still not well disseminated or utilized. So I would think with some increases in training load  or specialization to harken back to some of the other talks, that might be increasing injury while not necessarily having solutions to that problem.  Greg? So a lot of Daisuke Moto's work shows if you do it, it works. So the issue is they're not doing it, and they're not giving us time.  So as we talked about it, I think that the trend has changed now. Females can be in the weight room. I don't hear the idea, I don't want to get big anymore. That's less of an issue.  The issue I have is the coach giving me enough time to implement this. And so I think the performance enhancement that they get from doing these type of training  succeeds that last set of goal kicks or whatever they're doing. The coaches just don't implement it. And some coaches don't feel comfortable implementing themselves.  So if Haley or I go out and do it for them and have the kids ready 30 minutes before practice and do all of it for them, they'll let us do it.  But it's just implementation is the main thing. Any other questions from the audience?  Well, thanks for sticking it out for the four hours.  Again, if you're interested in this topic, the January, February issue of Sports Health from 2022 focused on this, that Tim Gabbitt was the special editor for this.  So if you're interested, that's available. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.

Video Summary

In this video, the speakers discuss the increasing numbers of ACL injuries, particularly in vulnerable populations, despite the effectiveness of prevention programs. They speculate that the problem may lie in the lack of dissemination and utilization of injury reduction strategies. They also mention that time constraints and coaches' reluctance to implement these strategies could be contributing factors. The speakers emphasize the need for proper implementation and highlight the potential benefits of training programs in the weight room. The video concludes with a mention of a related issue highlighted in the January-February 2022 issue of Sports Health, edited by Tim Gabbitt.

Asset Caption

Matthew Baird, MD; Greg Myer, PhD, CSCS; Tim Gabbett, PhD; Lindsay DiStefano, PhD, ATC

Keywords

ACL injuries

vulnerable populations

prevention programs

injury reduction strategies

implementation