How to make your dynamic warm-up into an ACL injury prevention warm-up
Dynamic warm-ups are the norm for teams getting ready to play, but they’re not enough to address the high risk for ACL injuries that exists for female high school athletes today. To do that, we need to include ACL injury prevention exercises. There is strong evidence that well-structured ACL injury prevention warm- ups work. They […]
The key to 2020 Vision is in View
The key to a 2020 vision for humanity has been designed into how we see.
Prevention Programs Reduce ACL Injuries by > 50%
Neuromuscular injury prevention training programs have been shown to reduce non-contact and indirect-contact ACL injuries by more than 50%. This percentage jumps to as high as 88% for comprehensive programs designed for the highest risk populations — young female athletes who participate in jumping and cutting sports. Recent meta-analyses of various injury prevention programs identified […]
The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it
Though it may try, no force of darkness can extinguish the Light of Christ.
Created Not Constructed
Read Psalm 139: 1-18. Consider: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed […]
Our Tower of Babble
We are in a babbling time, even a blabbering time. So much assaults our ears, our minds, our tendencies. There is so much to get our hackles up over, to take sides on, to gossip about and share with our friends. Enough already. This mobile device I have in my pocket has its uses, but […]
I am special because ________.
Saw this today: ” I am special because … I am really good at playing soccer.” A mother’s shout-out from her teacher-parent conference, complete with an image of her young child, kindergarten age, with a quotation bubble completing this phrase. His smiling face hovered atop a cutout body, colored with red and green Crayola crayons. […]
How the 2019 Washington Nationals Made Us Believe
On May 24th, the Washington Nationals are 19-31, twelve games below .500. They are no hits, no runs and all errors. With injuries piling up as fast as losses, I confess, there were several evenings I just had to turn the game off because I couldn’t watch the bullpen implode one more time: self-flagellation’s not […]
Complain to Me, not to Them
We carry so much. Where can we put it down? “Give it to Me and let them be.”
Their Cup is not empty
Dear World, forgive me. In my desire to share what is so important to me, so necessary, so powerful, so helpful, so true, I have neglected to notice this about you: your cup is not empty.* Willing students, perhaps, come with polished, expectant cups. Some with them behind their backs, waiting to see if the […]